City of Air and Bones

***City of Air and Bones*** is the second novel in *The Perilous Tides* series by Ally Turing.

## Chapters

PROLOGUE

1. SWORDS OF LEADEN POINTS
2. A VISION FAIR AND FORTUNATE
3. GOOD REASONS MUST, OF FORCE, GIVE PLACE TO BETTER
4. ALL PITY CHOKED WITH CUSTOM OF FELL DEEDS
5. ARMS IN STRENGTH OF MALICE
6. SITHENCE, IN THE LOSS THAT MAY HAPPEN, IT CONCERNS YOU SOMETHING TO KNOW IT
7. HEARTS OF BROTHERS’ TEMPER
8. I, OLDER IN PRACTISE, ABLER THAN YOURSELF TO MAKE CONDITIONS
9. WE, AT THE HEIGHT, ARE READY TO DECLINE
10. AS FIRE DRIVES OUT FIRE
11. A CURSE SHALL LIGHT UPON THE LIMBS OF MEN
12. COLD WISDOM WAITING ON SUPERFLUOUS FOLLY
13. BELIEVE ME FOR MINE HONOUR, AND HAVE RESPECT TO MINE HONOUR, THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE
14. AND GHOSTS DID SHRIEK AND SQUEAL ABOUT THE STREETS
15. AN ENTERPRISE OF HONORABLE-DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCE
16. THE GENIUS AND THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS ARE THEN IN COUNCIL
17. OF ALL THE WONDERS THAT I YET HAVE HEARD
18. CENSURE ME IN YOUR WISDOM, AND AWAKE YOUR SENSES, THAT YOU MAY THE BETTER JUDGE
19. FRESH OF SPIRIT AND RESOLVED
20. TO MEET ALL PERILS VERY CONSTANTLY
21. DREADFUL OBJECTS SO FAMILIAR
22. BUT, FOR MY SINGLE SELF, I HAD AS LIEF NOT BE AS LIVE TO BE IN AWE OF SUCH A THING AS I MYSELF
23. BEARING THE PALM ALONE
24. EXPLOITS AND MIGHTY ENTERPRISES
25. OF FANTASY, DREAMS AND CEREMONIES
26. THE STATE OF MAN AND THE SUFFERING FROM THE NATURE OF INSURRECTION
27. THE DEEP OF NIGHT IS CREPT UPON OUR TALK, AND NATURE MUST OBEY NECESSITY
28. WITH ALL KIND LOVE, GOOD THOUGHTS, AND REVERENCE
29. WITH ALL TRUE FAITH
30. ALL AMISS INTERPRETED
31. THE GOOD IS OFT INTERRED WITH THEIR BONES
32. FOR MY PART, I HAVE WALK’D ABOUT THE STREETS, SUBMITTING ME UNTO THE PERILOUS NIGHT
33. WARNINGS, AND PORTENTS, AND EVILS IMMINENT
34. THIS, THE BLEEDING BUSINESS
35. HE THINKS TOO MUCH: SUCH MEN ARE DANGEROUS
36. TEARS FOR LOVE
37. JOY FOR FORTUNE
38. HONOUR FOR VALOUR
39. DEATH FOR AMBITION
40. OUR FATHERS’ MINDS ARE DEAD, AND WE ARE GOVERN’D WITH OUR MOTHERS’ SPIRITS
41. IF I BE ALIVE AND YOUR MIND HOLD AND YOUR DINNER WORTH THE EATING
42. FOREST TO THIS HART
43. WORDS BEFORE BLOWS
44. NOT THAT I LOVED CAESAR LESS, BUT THAT I LOVED ROME MORE
45. THE FORTUNES AND AFFAIRS OF THE NOBLE THROUGH THE HAZARDS OF UNTROD STATE
46. DOMESTIC FURY AND FIERCE CIVIL STRIFE
47. CRY ‘HAVOC,’ AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR
48. SET HONOUR IN ONE EYE AND DEATH I' THE OTHER
49. HEAR ME FOR MY CAUSE, AND BE SILENT, THAT YOU MAY HEAR
50. THE WORK WE HAVE IN HAND, MOST BLOODY, FIERY, AND MOST TERRIBLE
51. FOR MINE EYES, SEEING THOSE BEADS OF SORROW STAND IN THINE, BEGAN TO WATER
52. BLOOD AND DESTRUCTION SHALL BE SO IN USE
53. WOE TO THE HAND THAT SHED THIS COSTLY BLOOD!
54. BETWEEN THE ACTING OF A DREADFUL THING AND THE FIRST MOTION
55. SO LIKE A COURTIER, CONTEMPT NOR BITTERNESS WERE IN HIS PRIDE OR SHARPNESS
56. THAT THIS FOUL DEED SHALL SMELL ABOVE THE EARTH WITH CARRION MEN, GROANING FOR BURIAL
57. YOUR VOICE SHALL BE AS STRONG AS ANY MAN''S IN THE DISPOSING OF NEW DIGNITIES
58. THE RUINS OF THE NOBLEST MAN THAT EVER LIVED IN THE TIDE OF TIMES
59. HIM AND HIS WORTH AND OUR GREAT NEED OF HIM YOU HAVE RIGHT WELL CONCEITED
60. TO EACH MAN HIS OWN BLOODY HAND
61. AND GRAVES HAVE YAWN’D, AND YIELDED UP THEIR DEAD
62. FAR FROM THIS COUNTRY PINDARUS SHALL RUN, WHERE NEVER ROMAN SHALL TAKE NOTE OF HIM
63. FOR NOW, THIS FEARFUL NIGHT, THERE IS NO STIR OR WALKING IN THE STREETS
64. BE PATIENT TILL THE LAST.
65. AND THINGS UNLUCKY CHARGE MY FANTASY
66. SO, I AM FREE; YET WOULD NOT SO HAVE BEEN, DURST I HAVE DONE MY WIL
67. HE IS A DREAMER; LET US LEAVE HIM: PASS
68. LET US LEAVE HIM, THE DREAMER: PASS
69. WHEN LOVE BEGINS TO SICKEN AND DECAY, IT USETH AN ENFORCED CEREMONY
70. BECAUSE CAESAR REFUSED THE CROWN THAT IT HAD ALMOST CHOKED CAESAR
71. FOR WHO SO FIRM THAT CANNOT BE SEDUCED?

EPILOGUE

## Characters

### Benders

* Cat Beaufils
* Nate Sommerfold
* Devin Moreinstein
* Gabriel Moreinstein
* Robert Cerf
* Madeline Cerf
* Richard Moreinstein
* James St. Vincent
* Mel Shain
* Selena Thore
* Zoe Pirhadi
* Jost Heidenreich

### Northerners

* Madame Circe (Ashaktir)
* Levi

### Unbounded

* Nick Campbell
* Charlie Carrillo-Bicchieri
* Marta Campbell
* Megan Hernandez