
Later that night:

Later that night:
Fourth Wing & Iron Flame Spoliers
I need Xaden’s POV for him learning that the unbonded broke into Violet’s room and also when he learns that Varrish has been interrogating Violet.
Tairn yelling at Xaden, Sgaeyl trying to meditate, and all of them feeling all the pain Violet shove Dain to keep him out of her head
OKAY WAIT WAIT !!
BRENNEN SAID THAT “something killed the Venin 600 years ago and we are actively searching for that weapon” AND THEN FUCKING ANDARNA SAID “I waited 650 years to hatch..it was why I was left behind. At least from what I can remember..”
ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT ANDARNA COULD BE THE WEAPON TO DEFEATING THE VENIN ?!
Iron flame spoiler (ending)
Wow… wow! I’m not okay!
But also, I am. As devastated as I am after finishing Iron Flame, it was also so satisfying.
Xaden turning venin is exactly what I expected to happen during this series. (My personal prediction was for at the end of book three, but since book two was divided in two parts, I’ll take that, too.) But that’s not even it.
Xaden and Violet were both in the exact same situation, quite possibly at the exact same time. After fighting for so long, they were burning out, putting everything they had into the one task they had to accomplish. They were at the absolute end of their strength, at the ground, defeated, hopeless. They both felt the power of the earth beneath their hands, both knew how wrong it was to use it… yet also that it would be the one thing that could save them. And they both would have made the same decision.
But while Violet had her friends and family around them, the people she loved, the people she couldn’t cut out of her life even when it would have been for the best, Xaden was alone. And where Violet had people fighting for her, keeping her from doing the unthinkable, sacrificing themselves for her… Xaden had no one.
It’s tragic poetry, this parallel to how they live their lives.