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at the clouds slipping on their shoes and shuffling toward the horizon.
Through a clearing in the swirling mass, a cluster of stars could be seen. He couldn’t help thinking that they gazed down at her.
Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.
His voice was hard, edged with the clash of shields and the scream of arrows.
Her heart threw itself backward and clung to the bars of her ribcage.
She stared at him without entirely seeing him as the ash-gray sky turned into the bleakness of Endovier, and the hiss of the wind became the sighing of slaves.
darkness and slavery, music was still alive and breathing. That somewhere, between the notes, was Sam. She forgot about time as she drifted between pieces, voicing the unspeakable, opening old wounds, playing and playing as the sound forgave and saved her.
“Courage of the heart is very rare,”
But he couldn’t imagine that she was pretending. Didn’t want to imagine that she was pretending.
She was stranded in a world of glass.
Find the evil in the castle … But the only truly evil thing in this world is the man ruling it.
“If you’d like to unwrap me,” he said, lifting the large wicker basket onto the table, “we still have an hour until the temple service.”
Chaol’s eyes softened. “If he weren’t here, I would have said yes.”
Because once the ball was over, she would go back to being an assassin, and he would still be a prince.
He had leapt from the cliff. He could only wait for the net.
“We all bear scars, Dorian. Mine just happen to be more visible than most.
I name you Elentiya, ‘Spirit That Could Not Be Broken.’ ”
Little did I know that the blond-haired girl was Queen of the Underworld.”
Freedom or death lay at this table. Her past and future were seated on a glass throne.
He was just a man—a man with too much power. And in that one heartbeat, she didn’t fear him. I will not be afraid, she vowed, wrapping the familiar words around her heart.
She found the rolling earthen hills of the north in his eyes. It was a sense of loyalty to his country that went beyond the man seated at the table. Far inside of her, she found a golden chain that bound them together.
The ancient queen’s hair glittered like a shooting star as she plummeted into Erilea.
“You could rattle the stars,” she whispered. “You could do anything, if you only dared.