There would be no surrender. Maeve would destroy them just to punish Aelin. He’d failed them—in sending Manon and Aelin away. On that gamble, he’d perhaps failed all of them. But Rowan Whitethorn had not. No, as those enemy ships slid into place among their foundering companions, Dorian saw that they each bore the same flag: A silver banner, with a screaming hawk. And where Maeve’s black flag of a perching owl had once flapped beside it … now that black flag lowered. Now the dark queen’s flag vanished entirely, as Fae ships bearing the silver banner of the House of Whitethorn opened fire upon
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