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But these days, Celaena knew the only threat she posed was to herself.
She’d deserved that particular blow in the brawl she’d provoked in last night’s taberna—she’d kicked a man’s balls into his throat, and when he’d caught his breath, he’d been enraged, to say the least.
“I’ve known a few brooding warrior-types in my day, but I think you might be the broodiest of them all.”
Instead, Dorian quietly said, “You were thinking about her.”
“And despite what happened, I’m fairly certain we’re not enemies.”
Because Celaena was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, heir to the throne and rightful Queen of Terrasen.
It made her his mortal enemy. It made her Dorian’s enemy.
when the girl was poisoned with gloriella, it was the captain who stayed with her. The captain who had acted like a beast in a cage, prowling the room until Sorscha’s own nerves had been frayed.
The aches and pains were soothing somehow. Not comforting, but … distracting. Welcome. Deserved.
Rowan might not have spoken to her for most of their journey—he’d shown as much interest in her as he would in a pile of shit on the road
“Hello, Aelin Galathynius.”
Celaena bit her tongue hard enough to keep her gods-damned smart-ass mouth shut.
“I wish you to become who you were born to be. To become queen.”
She didn’t even have a throne, or a crown, or a court. Didn’t want them. And she could bring down the king as Celaena Sardothien, thank you very much.
In the kitchen, chopping vegetables and washing pans, she was absolutely, gloriously nobody.
She could not remember what it was like to be free.
The following day she didn’t expect the messenger who arrived after breakfast, asking for the name of her village. And when she hesitated, he said that the Crown Prince wanted to know. Wanted to know, so he could have it added to his personal map of the continent.
Thunderclouds clustered during the late afternoon. Rowan forced her to sit through the storm until her teeth were clattering in her skull and her blood was thick with ice, and then they finally made the trek to the fortress. He ditched her by the baths again, eyes glimmering with an unspoken promise that tomorrow would be worse.
for a second, it hadn’t been Sorscha but Celaena, broken with grief and loss and rage, coming to his room because there was no one else to turn to.
Not the magic but the panic in his eyes, the fear and pain. He wasn’t an enemy using forbidden powers, but—a young man in need of help. Her help.
“The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.”
Do us both a favor and go to hell.”
“Because I didn’t want you to die to save me,” she admitted. “Would you have shifted to save yourself?” “Your opinion of me is pretty much identical to my own, so you know the answer.”
“I will carry your secrets to the grave—but I want no part of them.”
The thought of marrying like that, of someone else’s body on hers, someone who was not Chaol
What are you doing that makes her come in here with such emptiness in her eyes?”

