Yet not before his eyes darkened wholly, until no white shone. Not from the death sweeping over him. But as he seemed to convey a message down a long, obsidian bond. The message that might doom them: Aelin Galathynius was not here. “Enough of this,” Aedion snarled, and fear—real fear blanched his face as he, too, realized what the messenger had just relayed to his master.

