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Aelin looped her arm through his. “I’m going to start a rumor about you, then. Something truly grotesque.” He groaned. “I dread the thought of what you might come up with.” She adopted a harsh whisper as they passed a group of human soldiers. “You flew back onto the battlefield to peck out the eyes of our enemies?” Her gasp echoed off the rock. “And ate those eyes?” One of the soldiers tripped, the others whipping their heads to them. Rowan pinched her shoulder. “Thank you for that.” She inclined her head. “You’re very welcome.”
KOA - just generally obsessed with these 2
They halted, breathless and wild-eyed, before she could decide that it really wouldn’t be a bad idea to unfasten his pants right there, or that his hand, discreetly and lazily rubbing that damned spot between her thighs, should be inside her.
KOA - The Queen is surely allowed to do whatever she wants on the stairs, right???
Nesryn’s sharp eyes scanned Aelin from head to toe. “You’re feeling all right?” “Just needed to rest.” Aelin jerked her chin at Rowan. “He requires frequent naps in his old age.”
KOA - my heart
“I don’t see how I can ask Yrene to do it. Ask it of Chaol.” Aelin swallowed. “To even put Yrene near Erawan or Maeve … I can’t do it.”
KOA - Yrene is so strong pls talk to her
Erawan smiled as he sat, pouring a goblet of wine for the female, then for himself. And all thoughts of killing vanished from Dorian’s head as the Valg king asked, “Is there any other reason you would deign to visit Morath, Maeve?”
KOA - STOP IT
“Well, we have the gods to thank for that.” Lysandra said, simmering with rage, “You have Aelin to thank for that.”
KOA - YES Girl. TELL HIM
“All of them. All of them came here because of Aelin. Not you. So before you sneer that there is no Her Majesty’s Armada, allow me to tell you that there is. And you are not a part of it.”
KOA - yes yes yes
The Fae Queen smiled down at him. “You are not a very skilled spy, King of Adarlan.”
KOA - HECK
“Can I tell you what Aelin revealed to me, during those moments I was able to peer into her mind?” Dorian didn’t dare reach for Damaris again. “You enslaved her,” he growled. “I don’t want to hear a damn thing about it.”
KOA - Dorian having to hear about this is genuinely so awful
“What if you didn’t only ally with me,” he asked at last, “but with Adarlan itself?” Maeve didn’t answer. As if she were surprised by the offer. “A bigger alliance than merely working together to find the key,” Dorian mused, and shrugged. “You have no kingdom, and clearly want another. Why not lend your gifts to Adarlan, to me? Bring your spiders to our side.” “A breath ago, you were livid that I enslaved your friend.” “Oh, I still am. Yet I am not so proud to refuse to consider the possibility. You want a kingdom? Then join mine. Ally with me, work with me to get what we need from Erawan, and
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KOA a this is so stressful????
“Did you at least find what you were seeking?” Dorian lay down before the fire, curling an arm beneath his head. “No.”
KOA - :(
“I’m sure you already know this, but Aedion is as stubborn and hotheaded as they come.” He jerked his chin toward Aelin, riding ahead, saying something to Fenrys that made Rowan snicker—and Fenrys bark a laugh. “Aelin and Aedion might as well be twins.”
KOA - they are best friends
“Both of them will often say one thing, but mean something else entirely. And then deny it until their last breath.” Chaol shook his head. “Give Aedion time. When we reach Orynth, I have a feeling that Aedion will be happier to see you than he lets on.”
KOA - I wish so bad that Gavriel knew about Aedion before now
“I wish—I wish I had been so lucky to have you as my father.” Surprise and something far deeper passed across Gavriel’s face. His tattooed throat bobbed. “Thank you. Perhaps it is our lot—to never have the fathers we wish, but to still hope they might surpass what they are, flaws and all.”
KOA - Gavriel should just be Chaols dad to
“I shall endeavor to be worthy of my son.”
KOA - YOU ARE WORTHY
Two of those witch towers had been directly over the pits. Pits that they had filled with the chemical reactors and powders that fueled Rolfe’s firelances, then concealed beneath the earth—waiting for a spark to ignite them.
KOA - this was a smart plan
The final Wyrdkey. He dropped her arm, sliding the Wyrdkey into his pocket, and turned for the portal. But a hand wrapped around his, feeble and shaking. He whirled, a hand going to Damaris, and found her staring up at him. Tears slid down her face. “Kill me,” she breathed. Dorian blinked. “You—you pushed it back.” Not the key, but the demon inside her, he realized. Somehow, with that healing magic— “Kill me,” she said, and began sobbing. “Kill me, please.”
KOA - my heart is breaking with Dorian’s rn
Dorian said into the dark chasm of her mind, I was a slave once. You didn’t really think I’d allow myself to be so once again, did you?
KOA - HELL YEAH BOYYY DORIAN IS SO SMART
the entire eastern half of the keep was balanced upon his will alone. Until now. Until half a thought had his magic expanding through those cracks, bearing down upon them. And so Morath began to crumble.
KOA - HIS POWER
“I don’t care what you do with him.” “Do you care if he walks out alive?” Lorcan said with deadly calm. Elide studied the male whose heart she held. “No.”
KOA - GOOD
“I threw up earlier,” Evangeline whispered. Aedion said in a conspiratorial whisper, “Better than shitting your pants, sweetheart.”
KOA - Daddy Aedion LITERALLY????
“For those we love, we can rise above that fear. Remember that tomorrow. Even if you throw up, even if you spend the whole night in the privy. Remember that we have something to fight for, and it will always triumph.” Evangeline nodded. “I will.”
KOA - I love a wholesome dad moment
Darrow said to Evangeline. “I find that I will have need for someone of quick wit and quicker feet to assist me here. To run messages to our commanders in this castle, and fetch me supplies as needed.” Evangeline angled her head. “You wish me to help?”
KOA - still hate Darrow but this is so cute
The Ironteeth aerial legion had been unleashed at last. “Oh gods,” Ren whispered.
KOA - NOOOO
“Please. I am begging you. I am begging you, Lysandra, to go.” Her chin lifted. “You are not asking our other allies to run.” “Because I am not in love with our other allies.”
KOA - PLEASE
“I should have told you,” Aedion said, voice breaking. “Every day after I realized it, all these months. I should have told you every day.”
KOA - this is so sad
A crown of stars. For the last Crochan Queen. Panting, rasping breaths neared, and Aedion glanced away from Manon Blackbeak to see Darrow hurry onto the city walls, gaping at the witch and her wyvern, at Aedion for not firing at her—her, whom Darrow believed to be an enemy come to parley before their slaughter. “We will not surrender,” Darrow spat.
KOA - Darrow knows nothing
“We came,” Manon said, loud enough that all on the city walls could hear, “to honor a promise made to Aelin Galathynius. To fight for what she promised us.” Darrow said quietly, “And what was that?” Manon smiled then. “A better world.”
KOA - why am I crying so hard I knew she was coming
An aerial legion to challenge the Ironteeth. The Crochans had returned at last.
KIA - crying and covered in goose bumps
“I would rather fly with you than with ten thousand Ironteeth at my side.” She smiled
KOA - Manon loves her girls so much
“We are the Thirteen,” she said. “From now until the Darkness claims us.”
KOA - whimpering
“I thought we were going to die today,” she said. “We were.” “I’m still angry with you,” she blurted. “But …” His brows rose, light she had not seen for some time shining from his face. “But?” She scowled. “But I shall think about what you said to me. That’s all.”
KOA - this is healing my heart
She broke from the ice and the water, arcing through the air, and slammed right into Morath’s eastern flank. Soldiers screamed as she unleashed herself in a whirlwind of teeth and claws and a massive, snapping tail. Where the white sea dragon moved, black blood sprayed.
KOA - Lysandra is literally the coolest person alive
So Lorcan did.
KOA - LITERALLY GET LOST
The tattoo he’d made for them. She’d taken one look at the spread wings—a hawk’s wings—across her back and kissed him. Kissed him until his own clothes were gone, and she was astride him, neither bothering with words, or capable of finding them.
KOA - my loves
Dorian lifted a hand, his face grave as death, even as his eyes widened at the sight of her. But Aelin sensed it then. What Dorian carried. The Wyrdkeys. All three of them.
KOA - I’m excited for them to be in the same place but also very horrified
She would beg, she would crawl, if it bought him the chance to live. Her warrior-hearted mount. Who had saved her far more than she had ever saved him. Who had saved her in the ways that counted most.
KOA - I am wrecked. I’m sobbing I’m screaming
she said to Abraxos, touching his spine, “I love you.”
KOA - the noise that just came out of me
Petrah Blueblood. And behind the Heir to the Blueblood Witch-Clan, now slamming into Morath’s aerial legion from where they’d crept onto the battlefield from high above the clouds, were the Ironteeth. Hundreds of them. Hundreds of Ironteeth witches and their wyverns crashed into their own.
KOA - I love Petrah
Even with the wind, the battle, Manon still heard Petrah as the Blueblood Heir said to her, “A better world.”
KOA - a better world :(
Petrah only said, “For Keelie.” For the wyvern Petrah had loved—as Manon loved Abraxos. Who had fought for Petrah to her last breath, while Iskra’s bull slaughtered her.
KOA - I love Petrah so much
and then there were eleven pairs of hands on Abraxos’s neck. Staunching the flow of his blood. Pressing as one, to keep that precious blood inside him while the healer was found.
KOA - THIS!! Manons family, doing everything they can to save one of their own. I am obsessed with the thirteen
A flash of light, a boom louder than thunder, and then a portion of the sky became empty.
KOA - the witch towers are so horrible
Petrah, now within the confines of her coven, even made a run for the tower. To rip it down. They were beaten back by a swarm of Ironteeth.
KOA - bless you, Petrah
“Live, Manon.” Manon blinked. Asterin smiled wider, kissed Manon’s brow, and whispered again, “Live.”
KOA - I’m going to kill myself
Narene’s body broken on impact.
KOA - Abraxos’ mate :(
Screaming, endless and wordless, as that thing in her chest, as her heart, shattered.
KOA - me too
But Asterin was already there. And it was not darkness, but light—light, bright and pure as the sun on snow, that erupted from Asterin.
Abraxos lay beside her, his tail curling around her while she bowed over her knees and wept.
KOA - insert pic of me ugly crying
And far away, across the snow-covered mountains, on a barren plain before the ruins of a once-great city, a flower began to bloom.
KOA - a true Queen but at what cost
