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An Ember in the Ashes
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- She delivers a terse speech from a raised dais, and when it comes time to take our oaths to the Empire, I only know to stand because everyone around me does.†
p. 81.3 *dais = raised platform
- Their hoods are thrown back, revealing their unsettlingly stark features, and, led by Cain, they ghost across the grass and form a half circle around the Commandant's dais.†
p. 82.2
- When Cain mounts the dais, she steps aside as if she expected him.†
p. 82.2
- My blood falls to the dais in a rapid drip.†
p. 86.9
- The legionnaires have left us on a raised dais behind Cain, who stares fixedly at the amphitheater's entrance as if awaiting something.†
p. 385.4
- A dozen other Augurs are arrayed around the dais, tattered shadows who darken the stadium with their very presence.†
p. 385.5
- The Commandant takes her seat while the Augur deposits Laia on the dais beside Cain.†
p. 385.9
- The same Augur who delivered her to the dais kneels behind her and holds her still with an iron grip, like a butcher holding a lamb for slaughter.†
p. 386.3
- The Augur looks at each of us in turn before taking a scim from the legionnaires—one of mine—and laying it on the dais equidistant from Marcus, Helene, and me.†
p. 386.9
- He drops like a stone, clearly not expecting her attack, and she shoves him off the dais, then kicks my scim toward me.†
p. 387.3
- I spot the hilt of a dagger that's fallen to the dais, the rapidly widening pool of blood spilling out of her.†
p. 388.9
- Marcus jumps onto the dais, and I know he's coming for me.†
p. 389.2
- The Augur who restrained Laia lifts the girl's body with difficulty and staggers off the dais.†
p. 390.6
- As her weight crushes me to the dais, the dagger Marcus has flung into her side is jarred loose.†
p. 397.2
- By now, I shouldn't be surprised at her utter lack of emotion, but I can't help but stare at her from where I crouch beneath the execution dais.†
p. 432.7
- I stare at the clock tower through a slim crack in the base of the dais, trying not to blink.†
p. 434.4
- We're beneath the execution dais; she must have dragged me here.†
p. 437.6
- In the courtyard, my mother climbs to her feet, peering through the dust and smoke at the dais.†
p. 439.3
- My Teluman blades are long gone, abandoned on the dais of the amphitheater yesterday.†
p. 441.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(dais) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to people on it
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)