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And she had just learned how thoroughly her grandmother and the King of Adarlan intended to destroy them.
Marta, the housekeeper’s wife,
The weapon wasn’t for winning glory or triumph or the love of battle. It was for extermination. A full-scale slaughter that would involve little fighting at all.
Fight, fight, fight, her blood sang—do not let him cage you. Your mother went down fighting. She was a witch, and you are a witch, and you do not yield—you do not yield—
“The witches don’t have magic, not like us. But you, a hybrid of both lines
The rebels didn’t know that the man was still inside.
“Any debts owed to me by Lysandra and Evangeline are now paid in full. At their earliest convenience, they may receive the Mark of their freedom.”
Mile after mile they flew. Manon couldn’t tell why that thread kept yanking, why it felt so urgent, but she pushed them hard, all the way to Rifthold.
“How mad is Lorcan going to be,” Aelin murmured as they lay down face-to-face, “when he eventually opens up that amulet, finds the Valg commander’s ring inside, and realizes we gave him a fake?”
“You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live.”
“Ten years of shadows, but no longer. Light up the darkness, Majesty.”
“Let’s go rattle the stars.”
We get to come back.”
He had been too busy stabbing her to notice the ring she’d slipped onto his finger when she’d grabbed his hand as if to shove him away.
Where Lysandra lunged, slashing with claws and fangs, soldiers died.
When Lysandra dared look, it was in time to see Nesryn Faliq draw another arrow atop the neighboring rooftop, flanked by her rebels, and fire it clean through the eye of the final guard between Lysandra and the castle.
They joined hands. So the world ended. And the next one began.
Erawan was Perrington.
Erawan had forced her to bow that day in Endovier and neither of them had scented or marked what the other was.
“I tried to stop it.”
“To order the towers built,” she said, “and use that spell to banish magic.” And now that they had freed magic … the magic-wielders would be sniffed out by every Valg demon in Erilea.
I came to have you burn it out of me!” the king sobbed. “Aelin
The glass castle was gone. The king was dead.
Hurry, Blackbeak, whispered a strange, soft female voice in her head that was at once old and young and wise. You race against doom.
Not one more. Not one more female would she allow them to take.
she knew that it was a goddess peering over her shoulder, a lady of wise things. Who perhaps had watched over Elide her entire life, muted without magic, but now that it was free
It did not seem like a weakness to fight for those who could not defend themselves. Even if they weren’t true witches. Even if they meant nothing to her.
Kaltain just squeezed Elide’s fingers. “You find Celaena Sardothien. Give her this. No one else. No one else. Tell her that you can open any door, if you have the key.
When she asks why, tell her I said that they would not let me bring the cloak she gave me, but I kept a piece of it. To remember that promise she made. To remember to repay her for a warm cloak in a cold dungeon.”
She burned the cradles. She burned the monsters within. She burned the men and their demon princes. And then she burned the witches, who looked at her with gratitude in their eyes and embraced the dark flame.
She took out every wall and every column. As she brought it all crashing and crumbling around them, Kaltain smiled, and at last burned herself into ash on a phantom wind.
“You light up the darkness.”
“The Torre Cesme might be your only hope of walking again,” Dorian said.
maybe it was time to stop dreaming of running.
land was officially released by the Allsbrooks years ago, I can technically appoint you lady of it. With Evangeline as your heir, should you wish it.”
Things should change, and often, or they’ll get boring.”
