Listen in as we discuss chapters 1 through 5 of Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. Podcast inspired by Shadow Daddy, Xaden Riorson, in The Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! https://links.fable.co/aiMtu8GyWNb Also enjoy our summary book notes: Prologue: • Xaden keeps his eyes down, she's trying to find xaden while he is headed to barlowe. • They allow her access, consequence is losing their soul • Over hears Xaden and Barlowe • Andarna wants to find her family 🖤 • Violet needs Imogen (to erase Barlowe's memory?) Chapter 1: • Except: I will save him • Tairn still pissy about Violet jumping, they're hunting for dark wielders • Lilith protected basgiath from storms • Andarna mocks tairns • Slain 31 venin * • Ridoc's dragon fucked up and pissed off tairn, ridoc and Aotrom fighting about going back to aretia • Tairn keeps calling xaden dark one • Treaty being formed for Aretia riders, divide among the cadets • Imogen missing duty to be in xaden duty • Garrick, bodhi, and Imogen think Violet shouldn't be sleeping with Xaden • Imogen thinks Violet is running her own rebellion to save xaden and find andarna's kind • Sawyer visited by retirement general • Venin inside basgiath Chapter 2: • Special signets happen maybe once a generation or century and only once all 6 existed at one time • Within the walls(in the computer 🤨, zoolander), no infantry survivors, sawyer left behind?!, takes out a "scribe" • How were they scribes without the scribes knowing?? • Scribe venin(forehead tattoo?) disappears while fighting near Barlowe's cell • Xaden takes them all out with shadows,"why is it always you?" • Barlowe has drained the cell, if he has nothing to pull he'll be dead within the week?! • Vi and Xaden alone, fear of him being alone with her, no red eyes, he let's her in, he wielded beyond the wards but only with Sgaeyl's power • Sgaeyl not speaking to Xaden, tairn said to not count on Sgaeyl getting over it, violet doesnt know what he gave for the power • Xaden didn't know violet was in the interrogation room but bc he sensed the venin! (Like dragons to each other?) Chapter 3: • Letter from mom to dad, atrocious taste in men 🤣 • Violet's not scared but he thinks she should be, alone time up • Private meeting, violet assigned to a task force to find 7th breed, captain Grady leading • Negotiating where to place the fliers • Back in the bedroom, they slept on and start to bang one out. • When she came, she was pulling at their bond and he pulled away. • He lost control and started to channel from the headboard 😱 Chapter 4: • They talk about what happened, violet hasn't told Xaden her next mission • Brennan interrupted, how many people are out there* • Garrick slept with a flier, Imogen insults him, he asks if she is jealous • Brennan there for xaden for patrol, Mira arrived and brought violet a conduit, wooden disc for practice? Warmth, levitation, and sound warding • Brennan negotiating for the fliers, fliers with the 1st years, mira finds out about andarna adventure • Brennan compares mira to lilith, she calls him out for not using their name, she throws the disc • Disc is for keeping the fliers safe at basgiath, for negotiation? Chapter 5: • Excerpt, never expect mercy from a rider • Sloane tells violet about a challenge between riders and fliers, she calls for Dain, aura beinhaven has a 1st yr flier at knife point. • Cat wants to take his place, violet tells her why it's a bad idea, dain points out it's against the codex • Dragons and gryphons arrive, Dain and Aura arguing, "not sure I would brag about being the wing that produced Jack Barlowe" 🤣 • Violet wishes Xaden would put his shields down. Tairn says the dark one cannot reuinite what he broke 😱 • Aura challenges, starts to torch dain, Vi pins her hand with a dagger. • If you're going to wield it's me your going to be dealing with. ⚡️