Fledgling: Parts 7-9

by S.K. Ali
In this first book of The Keeper's Records of Revolution duology, a fractured world is rocked by the consequences of a political kidnapping that leads to revolution.

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  1. malevolent
    wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
    “Do not listen to the whistling of the wind. If your mind lingers on the sound, you may begin to feel like it is chasing you — like malevolent air currents are reaching their tendrils to ensnare you, to make you stay by its state of loneliness in the abandoned village. To make you a guest amid its decrepit walls.”
  2. incredulity
    doubt about the truth of something
    “Do they make these things here?” he asked, the tone of his voice conveying his incredulity as he moved on to a rectangular disk with two holes and wound black ribbon.
  3. disregard
    give little or no attention to
    Disregard anything you hear that disrupts your mission.
  4. autonomy
    personal independence
    When she’d heard that being knitted into the ALIGN system takes away your autonomy, she hadn’t understood the ramifications.
  5. ramification
    a consequence, especially one that causes complications
    When she’d heard that being knitted into the ALIGN system takes away your autonomy, she hadn’t understood the ramifications.
  6. reconcile
    bring into consonance or accord
    He has a broody appearance, which I can’t reconcile with the way he’d shown so much care for Nada last night.
  7. injunction
    a judicial remedy to prohibit a party from doing something
    “Finding that treaty could save Lower Earth. When you present it to the council — there are enough guardians with variant thinking — it’s highly possible we could be seeing an injunction to pause the process.”
  8. vacate
    leave behind empty; move out of
    Nayf wrenched one arm from her grasp and moved the candle away and scooted beside her, on the other side of where Raisa had vacated her spot.
  9. platitude
    a trite or obvious remark
    “Those in the cave see only the shadows and lights played for them; those outside, who’ve experienced more, are aware there is the beyond, the better. Again, are you feeding us platitudes to make us accept the Enlightenment?”
  10. humility
    a lack of arrogance or false pride
    Hasuf stacked his palms on top of each other again and then looked at both Nayf and Nada in turn. To lay his palms like this was his way to surrender with humility.
  11. elated
    exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits
    He rolled away from his desk and stood up, elated.
  12. constraint
    a limitation or restriction
    She just wanted to give her wish a chance to fly and find its way to something beyond the terrible constraints of her world.
  13. saccharine
    overly sweet
    She had dumped a bunch of sugar in, and now she undid her face cover and showed him her saccharine smile, eyes scrunched up tight as though they were a dam against all the joy ready to burst out of her.
  14. preconception
    an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence
    He’d never been to Upper Earth, and now the possibility of seeing it challenge his preconceptions gave him anxiety.
  15. pompous
    puffed up with vanity
    Nayf didn’t know why the we Hasuf had uttered irked him. Why he kept seeing a pompous sort of presumptuousness in Hasuf’s behavior now.
Created on Mon Aug 25 05:12:47 EDT 2025 (updated Thu Sep 18 17:49:26 EDT 2025)

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