Aelin braced herself. Took plunging breaths that would bring her far away from here. From her body. She’d never let them break her. Never swear that blood oath. For Terrasen, for her people, whom she had left to endure their own torment for ten long years. She owed them this much. Deep, deep, deep she went, as if she could outrun what was to come, as if she could hide from it. The hammer glinted in the firelight as it rose over her knee, Cairn’s breath sucking in, anticipation and delight mingling on his face. Fenrys blinked, over and over and over. I am here, I am with you. It didn’t stop the
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