Darkstalker Quotes
"Fathom had never thought of himself as anyone special, and he certainly wasn’t expecting that to change the day of the animus test."
"Swish. Sand pattered across his back talons, just enough for him to be sure it wasn’t the wind that had done it."
"I hope you are taking this test seriously," said the queen.
"Of course, Your Majesty." Indigo widened her eyes as if she’d never done anything wrong in her entire life.
"I dare you to grab it and eat it," Indigo whispered.
"You know you want to." Her voice was as light as feathers, barely stirring the air.
"Coconut, listen up. I command you to fly across this beach and strike my grandfather."
"I didn’t know!" he protested. "I had no idea!"
"Prince Fathom," said the queen, stepping toward him with a glittering smile. "How perfectly wonderful."
"Try anything like that and I’ll enchant all your teeth to fall out."
"The darkness is his prey. He chases back the dark, like a hero."
"I don’t want to interrupt the queen," Indigo whispered to him.
"You," she said to Indigo. "Go find me a drink. Something with pineapple in it."
"You need to stop wasting your time with that … that low-born purple dragonet," she said, emphasizing affection as though it were a rotten oyster.
"And I don’t want to make boring conversation with all my ancient aunts and uncles either, but we’re in this together. That’s the deal."
"Of course I do. They’re extremely valuable."
"Do you think you’re done?" Queen Lagoon said to him softly. "Do you think you’ll ever be done atoning for what you did to Sapphire? It’s not going to end, Albatross. You’ll always be mine."
"Nobody threatens Whiteout," Darkstalker thought. "Not the IceWing queen, not my father. I won’t let anyone hurt her."
I am what I am," he said, spreading his wings again. "I can’t help my noble heart and generous nature.
"We might be able to do something about the size of that head, though," she said, laughing.
That’s one of her big sisters," Clearsight said, and laughed again at the look on his face. "Didn’t you know that already?
I will never invade your thoughts," he said. "I promise. I’ll stay out of your mind, always.
"But for now, I suggest we get back to our curriculum."
"I don’t know if anyone is left alive." The SeaWing stared at Clearsight with haunted blue eyes.
I can’t believe you really did this," she said, sitting up and picking up the scroll again. "What happens if the scroll gets destroyed? Is your magic gone forever?
"I agree," he said. He never wanted dragonets anyway. What kind of father could he ever be?
No, no, no," she said, laughing harder. "Fierceclaws? You definitely don’t win that argument.
"We’re going to have this argument a lot."
"All those visions couldn’t come true; she needed to study them to figure out what order they happened in, which ones were most likely, what were the turning points that led to each one."
"Beware your two queens," she whispered. "Beware your own power. Your claws will betray you in your final hour."
"No good could come of telling dragons vague cryptic things about the future, which they then tried to interpret and second-guess and fulfill and avoid."
"I need to write that down," he said, starting toward the desk and Darkstalker’s scroll.
"I’m not leaving you," she said. "Do you want me to leave you?"
"I thought you had a plan!" Clearsight shot back. "We’re not criminals, we’re heroes! We’re liberating the oppressed! Righting all wrongs! Saving the day!"
"Queen Pearl sent a message asking me to attend her in the throne room."
"I can’t I can’t I can’t," his mind cried.
"You’ll soon see what happens to dragons who show off around here."
"It's not for the queen, I want to teach the IceWings a lesson. I want to scare them into giving Mother back."
"I don’t see what would be wrong with letting me nudge you toward a decent dragon once in a while."
"I feel funny. All my words are coming out wrong."
"I’m not making a face! I’m having zero visions at all right now, I promise."
"You can’t wipe out an entire tribe. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of innocent IceWings."
"Isn’t the most important question who tried to kill me?"
"If anyone attacks us, Darkstalker would probably use his magic to protect us."
"I love you more than anything. I wish you weren’t an animus. I wish you’d never had a shred of magic."
"We’ll save her. Fathom, can you find your way back to the palace on your own?"
"I’m the only one who can stop him," she shouted to the queen’s furious upturned face. "And I will. I promise I will!"
"Darkstalker really doesn’t like it when dragons try to kill him," Clearsight said.
"I’m not going to let you kill the queen," she said as their talons touched down.
"She’s an idiot," Clearsight said, "but we can stop her from trying again. We can go back to the way things were."
"That’s why I didn’t see Quickdeath coming," Clearsight said. "Between the earrings and Allknowing trying to trick me — that’s how I was taken by surprise."
"My friends," Darkstalker called in a booming voice. "You’re about to see something no dragons have ever seen before."
"Trust me," he said. "We have a wonderful future ahead of us. Just stay in the moment with me and you’ll see."
"Clearsight remembered a long-ago dream that came from a scroll she used to love to read. It told stories of the lost continent and the secret tribes of dragons that lived there."
"I’m nothing like my father," he snarled. "I don’t need saving. I can choose my own future, and I like the one I see, and you’re going to learn to like it, too. Where is my scroll?"