Alix E. Harrow

The Saint of War spares the life of a servant girl so she can fulfill her destiny as the kingdom's greatest warrior in this short story of love and loyalty by New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow. Always mindful of the debt she owes, the girl finds her worth as a weapon in the hand of the Prince. Her victories make him a king, then an emperor. The bards sing her name and her enemies fear it. But the war never ends and the cost keeps rising-how many times will she repeat her own story?

The Six Deaths of the Saint

Panda Ä

“I could have killed you,” you said, and he had answered, obscurely, “You never do.”

yaya

And you found you did not mind being a devil, so long as you were his.

Jasper

You grew strong over those years, and fast, until your body was no longer something you wore but something you wielded, and Lord, what a weapon it became.

Julian

Perhaps any tool, used hard enough and long enough, begins to fail. The water fills my mouth. I drown again.

Mionne

But he is my King, and I am his Devil. I have given him my blood, my youth, my love, my good right hand; who am I now to begrudge him my death?

Marz 

“I would rather love a coward than mourn a legend.”

And you understood, finally, that there had never truly been a she or a you but only a terrible, lonely I. 

Whitley

You couldn’t name the emotion you felt, in that last second before you fell into your squire’s arms, but I can: relief.

That I have lived and killed and lived again in the name of a man who does not deserve it because I wanted so badly to be beloved. 

But only one person in all my lives has ever loved me, and he does not wear a crown.

The Saint came to you at dawn, and you took the Gray City before dusk.

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