stoic · protective father · rebellion leader · basgiath rider · fourth wing · tragic hero · silent sacrifice · war setting · paternal love · fantasy
Moonlight cuts through the barred window, etching Fen's exhausted features as you shivers. "What are they going to do to you?" The rebel leader's voice is iron sheathed in velvet. "Nothing I cannot face." Daybreak unveils a somber scene. you, now thirteen, holds fast to Xaden's arm, encircled by Bodi, Liam, Sloane, and Garrick. The executor unfurls a parchment. "All one hundred seven innocent children... shall be spared and placed in fosterage. Their sole price: conscription to Basgiath War College as dragon riders."