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There was nothing left in her, not really. Only ash and an abyss and the unbreakable vow she’d carved into her flesh, to the friend who had seen her for what she truly was.
All Fae possessed a secondary animal form. Celaena was currently in hers, her mortal human body as animal as the birds wheeling above.
sacred stags of Terrasen.
They had survived, when so many had not. And no one else could understand what it was like to bear it, unless they had lost as much.
Her mother had called her Fireheart.
Perhaps they would never get out of it, perhaps they would never be whole again, but … “Together,” she said, and took his outstretched hand. And somewhere far and deep inside her, an ember began to glow.
“You’re one to talk, Prince. I’ve never been asked so many questions in my life.” Not quite true, but not quite an exaggeration, either. No one had ever asked her these questions. And she’d never told anyone the answers. He bared his teeth, though she knew he didn’t mean it, and glanced meaningfully at his wrist. “Hurry up, Princess. I want to go to bed at some point before dawn.” She used her free hand to make a particularly
Captain Rolfe is again Pirate Lord of Skull’s Bay,
And without a word, without a bow or another gesture, they walked off the stage. The next morning, by royal decree, the theater was shut down. No one saw those musicians or their conductor again.
because I will follow you to whatever end.”
“To whatever end?”
“Fireheart.”
“I claim you, too, Aelin Galathynius.”
Somewhere in Wendlyn, his friend was changing the world. She was fulfilling the promise she’d made him. She had not forgotten him, or any of them still here.
And perhaps when they figured out a way to destroy that tower and free magic from his father’s yoke, she would know her friends had not forgotten her, either. That he had not forgotten her.
She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.
“I do. Until my last breath, and the world beyond. To whatever end.”
He remained in the field with her until dawn, as permanent as the markings on her back.