The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)

by Sarah J. Maas

everything had been a haze of rage and sorrow and bone-deep weariness, as if she were dreaming while awake.

as if she, too, understood that only the gods would see them safely over.

And Kasida was soaring, only air beneath them, nothing to keep her from the death that now wrapped around her completely.

“Where do men find it in themselves to do such monstrous things? How do they find it acceptable?”