This is week 2 with From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L Armentrout - we're discussing chapters 10 - 21. This week Hawke gets promoted to Royal Guard and declares his loyalty to Poppy. We see them getting closer and he finds out that her life isn't as honourable as it seems. We get an inside look at one of the Duke's "lessons'' and it's just as bad as we expected it to be. Poppy also fights to defend her town after the Rise is breached by Craven. We see Hawke defend Poppy from a feeble priestess and Poppy goes a long way for a dirty diary.