City of Air and Bones

City of Air and Bones

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Author	Ally Turing
Illustrator	Unknown
Published on	July 21st, 2016 (eBook) November 28th, 2023 (paperback)
Published by	Kindle Direct Publishing
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City of Air and Bones is the second novel in The Perilous Tides series by Ally Turing.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PROLOGUE
1 SWORDS OF LEADEN POINTS
2 A VISION FAIR AND FORTUNATE
3 GOOD REASONS MUST, OF FORCE, GIVE PLACE TO BETTER
4 ALL PITY CHOKED WITH CUSTOM OF FELL DEEDS
5 ARMS IN STRENGTH OF MALICE
6 SITHENCE, IN THE LOSS THAT MAY HAPPEN, IT CONCERNS YOU SOMETHING TO KNOW IT
7 HEARTS OF BROTHERS’ TEMPER
8 I, OLDER IN PRACTISE, ABLER THAN YOURSELF TO MAKE CONDITIONS
9 WE, AT THE HEIGHT, ARE READY TO DECLINE
10 AS FIRE DRIVES OUT FIRE
11 A CURSE SHALL LIGHT UPON THE LIMBS OF MEN
12 COLD WISDOM WAITING ON SUPERFLUOUS FOLLY
13 BELIEVE ME FOR MINE HONOUR, AND HAVE RESPECT TO MINE HONOUR, THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE
14 FOR MINE EYES, SEEING THOSE BEADS OF SORROW STAND IN THINE, BEGAN TO WATER
15 AN ENTERPRISE OF HONORABLE-DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCE
16 THE GENIUS AND THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS ARE THEN IN COUNCIL
17 OF ALL THE WONDERS THAT I YET HAVE HEARD
18 CENSURE ME IN YOUR WISDOM, AND AWAKE YOUR SENSES, THAT YOU MAY THE BETTER JUDGE
19 FRESH OF SPIRIT AND RESOLVED
20 TO MEET ALL PERILS VERY CONSTANTLY
21 DREADFUL OBJECTS SO FAMILIAR
22 BUT, FOR MY SINGLE SELF, I HAD AS LIEF NOT BE AS LIVE TO BE IN AWE OF SUCH A THING AS I MYSELF
23 BEARING THE PALM ALONE
24 EXPLOITS AND MIGHTY ENTERPRISES
25 OF FANTASY, DREAMS AND CEREMONIES
26 THE STATE OF MAN AND THE SUFFERING FROM THE NATURE OF INSURRECTION
27 THE DEEP OF NIGHT IS CREPT UPON OUR TALK, AND NATURE MUST OBEY NECESSITY
28 WITH ALL KIND LOVE, GOOD THOUGHTS, AND REVERENCE
29 SO LIKE A COURTIER, CONTEMPT NOR BITTERNESS WERE IN HIS PRIDE OR SHARPNESS
30 ALL AMISS INTERPRETED
31 THE GOOD IS OFT INTERRED WITH THEIR BONES
32 FOR MY PART, I HAVE WALK’D ABOUT THE STREETS, SUBMITTING ME UNTO THE PERILOUS NIGHT
33 WARNINGS, AND PORTENTS, AND EVILS IMMINENT
34 THIS, THE BLEEDING BUSINESS
35 HE THINKS TOO MUCH: SUCH MEN ARE DANGEROUS
36 DOMESTIC FURY AND FIERCE CIVIL STRIFE
37 SET HONOUR IN ONE EYE AND DEATH I’ THE OTHER
38 THE WORK WE HAVE IN HAND, MOST BLOODY, FIERY, AND MOST TERRIBLE
39 HEAR ME FOR MY CAUSE, AND BE SILENT, THAT YOU MAY HEAR
40 OUR FATHERS’ MINDS ARE DEAD, AND WE ARE GOVERN’D WITH OUR MOTHERS’ SPIRITS
41 IF I BE ALIVE AND YOUR MIND HOLD AND YOUR DINNER WORTH THE EATING
42 NOT THAT I LOVED CAESAR LESS, BUT THAT I LOVED ROME MORE
43 MY STATUA, WHICH, LIKE A FOUNTAIN WITH AN HUNDRED SPOUTS, DID RUN PURE BLOOD
44 FOREST TO THIS HART
45 THE FORTUNES AND AFFAIRS OF THE NOBLE THROUGH THE HAZARDS OF UNTROD STATE
46 BETWEEN THE ACTING OF A DREADFUL THING AND THE FIRST MOTION
47 TEARS FOR LOVE
48 JOY FOR FORTUNE
49 HONOUR FOR VALOUR
50 DEATH FOR AMBITION
51 BLOOD AND DESTRUCTION SHALL BE SO IN USE
52 AND GHOSTS DID SHRIEK AND SQUEAL ABOUT THE STREETS
53 WOE TO THE HAND THAT SHED THIS COSTLY BLOOD!
54 CRY ‘HAVOC,’ AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR
55 WORDS BEFORE BLOWS
56 THAT THIS FOUL DEED SHALL SMELL ABOVE THE EARTH WITH CARRION MEN, GROANING FOR BURIAL
57 IS IT FIT, THE THREE-FOLD WORLD DIVIDED, HE SHOULD STAND ONE OF THE THREE TO SHARE IT?
58 YOUR VOICE SHALL BE AS STRONG AS ANY MAN’S IN THE DISPOSING OF NEW DIGNITIES
59 SIGN’D IN THY SPOIL, AND CRIMSON’D IN THY LETHE
60 WITH ALL TRUE FAITH
61 THE RUINS OF THE NOBLEST MAN THAT EVER LIVED IN THE TIDE OF TIMES
62 HIM AND HIS WORTH AND OUR GREAT NEED OF HIM YOU HAVE RIGHT WELL CONCEITED
63 IF THOU BEEST NOT IMMORTAL, LOOK ABOUT YOU
64 VIRTUE CANNOT LIVE OUT OF THE TEETH OF EMULATION
65 SECURITY GIVES WAY TO CONSPIRACY
66 TO EACH MAN HIS OWN BLOODY HAND
67 AND GRAVES HAVE YAWN’D, AND YIELDED UP THEIR DEAD
68 THE FATES WITH TRAITORS DO CONTRIVE
69 FAR FROM THIS COUNTRY PINDARUS SHALL RUN, WHERE NEVER ROMAN SHALL TAKE NOTE OF HIM
70 FOR NOW, THIS FEARFUL NIGHT, THERE IS NO STIR OR WALKING IN THE STREETS
71 BE PATIENT TILL THE LAST 72 AND THINGS UNLUCKY CHARGE MY FANTASY
73 ART THOU ANY THING? ART THOU SOME GOD, SOME ANGEL, OR SOME DEVIL, THAT MAKEST MY BLOOD COLD AND MY HAIR TO STARE?
74 SO, I AM FREE; YET WOULD NOT SO HAVE BEEN, DURST I HAVE DONE MY WILL
75 HE IS A DREAMER; LET US LEAVE HIM: PASS
76 LET US LEAVE HIM, THE DREAMER: PASS
77 O, THEN BY DAY WHERE WILT THOU FIND A CAVERN DARK ENOUGH TO MASK THY MONSTROUS VISAGE?
78 BECAUSE CAESAR REFUSED THE CROWN THAT IT HAD ALMOST CHOKED CAESAR
79 FOR WHO SO FIRM THAT CANNOT BE SEDUCED?
80 O CONSPIRACY, SHAMEST THOU TO SHOW THY DANGEROUS BROW BY NIGHT, WHEN EVILS ARE MOST FREE?
81 WHEN LOVE BEGINS TO SICKEN AND DECAY, IT USETH AN ENFORCED CEREMONY