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“Shadowfire.”
QOS - KALTAIN IS SO POWERFUL
“From me,” Kaltain said, in a voice that was dead and hollow and yet vicious. “It has always been there—asleep. And now it has been awoken. Shaped anew.”
QOS - why is she kind of creepy tho
“I need somewhere to sleep. Just for tonight.” His tail moved slightly, the iron spikes clinking on the stones. Wagging. Like a dog—sleepy,
QOS - Abraxos and Elide are my favourite friendship
“You little bitch,” Lorcan snarled in her ear.
QOS - i am filled with rage
“Even before I knew who you were, Aelin, I knew that what you were working toward … It was worth it.”
QOS - Lysandra and Aelin are adorable
She strode to Rowan, taking the heavy arm from him, and waved at the prince with the creature’s stiff fingers. “Stop that,” he hissed. She wriggled the demon’s fingers a bit more. “It’d make a good back-scratcher.” Rowan only frowned. “Killjoy,”
QOS - wholesome
Sam Cortland Beloved
My love
until then I’ll miss you, and I’ll wish you were here.”
Sobbing
Elide’s bowels had turned to water
QOS - always with the watery bowels
“You let them do this!” Asterin bellowed.
QOS - Asterin actually deserves everything
“Thank you for the oil,” he added. “My skin was a little dry.”
QOS - YOOOOOO ROWAN REALLY IS THAT BITCH I AM CACKLING
“Don’t do that. Don’t—touch me like that.”
QOS - oh noooo
It was so very easy to sit up and slice the knife across Arobynn’s throat.
QOS - YES LYSANDRA
“I want to take my time with you—to learn … every inch of you. And this apartment has very, very thin walls. I don’t want to have an audience,” he added as he leaned down again, brushing his mouth over the cut at the base of her throat, “when I make you moan, Aelin.”
QOS - I don’t even know who I am after this tbh
“When we get back,” he said, “remind me to prove you wrong about every thought that just went through your head.” She lifted an eyebrow. “Oh?” He gave her a sly smile that made thinking impossible. Exactly what he wanted—to distract her from the horrors of tomorrow. “I’ll even let you decide how I tell you: with words”—his eyes flicked once to her mouth—“or with my teeth and tongue.”
QOS - LORD HAVE MERCY
“Hello, princeling,” she purred.
QOS - PLEASE
“Hello, princeling,” she said, her voice bedroom-soft and full of glorious death. “Hello, witchling,” he said.
QOS - so obsessed with them
“But would you bleed red, or black?” “I’ll bleed whatever color you tell me to.”
QOS - THE RIZZZZZZ
“I suppose,” the queen went on, “that makes you smarter than Baba Yellowlegs.”
QOS - Aelin!! Keep your mouth!!! SHUT
“If I die because of you, I’ll beat the shit out of you in hell.”
QOS - my loves
“They tried to shoot my … Rowan through the heart. And I saved her anyway.”
QOS - baby girl wanted to say Mate so bad 😭
But Vernon was inside. He sat on the edge of Manon’s bed as if it were his own. “Going somewhere, Elide?”
QOS - Vernon is so gross
do not let him cage you. Your mother went down fighting. She was a witch, and you are a witch, and you do not yield—you do not yield—
QOS - you do not yield ELIDE!!!!
“I gave birth. The witchling almost ripped me in two coming out. I thought it was because she was a fighter, because she was a true Blackbeak. And I was proud. Even as I was screaming, even as I was bleeding, I was so proud of her.”
QOS - this is too much
Asterin turned, and Manon fell to her knees in the grass. There, branded on Asterin’s abdomen in vicious, crude letters was one word: UNCLEAN
QOS - literally crying my eyes out
Something … something was cracking and aching in Manon’s chest, caving in on itself.
QOS - me to
“What are you planning?” “Something very stupid, I think.”
QOS - all hail queen Manon
“Aedion,” Rowan said, and the general paused in the doorway. “Thank you.” “Anytime, brother.” He walked out.
QOS - BROTHERRRRR
“Should I thank you for putting on pants?” Lorcan said, his voice barely more than a midnight wind. “I didn’t want you to feel inadequate,”
QOS - LMAOOOO
“You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live.”
QOS - you also make me want to live Rowan!!’n
WITCH KILLER— THE HUMAN IS STILL INSIDE HIM
QOS - god this is the coolest thing ever
And on his finger, Athril’s golden ring glowed. “Fight it,” she panted. The sun angled closer. “Fight it. We get to come back.” Brighter and brighter, the golden ring pulsed at his finger. The prince staggered back a step, his face twisting. “You human worm.” He had been too busy stabbing her to notice the ring she’d slipped onto his finger when she’d grabbed his hand as if to shove him away. “Take it off,” he growled, trying to touch it—and hissing as though it burned. “Take it off!”
QOS - This is everything to me
“It’s been an honor, Prince,” Aedion said to Rowan.
QOS - not my friendssss
The commander’s hand came down. And was ripped clean off by a ghost leopard.
QOS - HAHAJAHHAH
Dorian. His name was Dorian. Dorian Havilliard, and he was the Crown Prince of Adarlan.
QOS - why did i just whimper
So the world ended. And the next one began.
QOS - Long live the queen!!! Long live the NEW King!!!!
“Have you come to save me at last, Aelin Galathynius?”
QOS - this hurts
The Crown Prince tipped his head back to the sky and roared, and it was the battle cry of a god. Then the glass castle shattered.
QOS - his power
“When war comes—which it will if Perrington survived—you should hope you do not see me again, Elide Lochan.” “All the same,” Elide said, “I hope I do.” She bowed to the Wing Leader.
QOS - girlfriends leaving each other :(
“What was it like?” Manon asked quietly. “To love.” For love was what it had been—what Asterin perhaps alone of all the Ironteeth witches had felt, had learned. “It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed me and unmade me and forged me. I hated it, because I knew I couldn’t escape it, and knew it would forever change me. And that witchling … I loved her, too. I loved her in a way I cannot describe—other than to tell you that it was the most powerful thing I’ve ever felt, greater than rage, than lust, than magic.” A soft
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QOS - yes
Rowan came close enough to graze her shoulder and murmured, “I feel as if I’ve been looking for this place my entire life.”
QOS - Rowan please
Aelin mounted her horse, she wondered if her companions could tell that it was not rain gleaming on her face as she tugged on her black hood. Wondered if they, too, had spied the Lord of the North standing watch deep in the forest, the white stag’s immortal glow muted in the rain, come to bid Aelin Galathynius farewell.
EOS - ily lord of the north
“You can call me Lorcan,” he said, though she hadn’t asked. And with that, he hauled her over his broad shoulder like a sack of potatoes and ran.
EOS - okay hot tho
“Your Second, Asterin Blackbeak, shall pay the blood debt between our clans. She dies at sunrise tomorrow.”
EOS - absolutely not
“Aelin is my heart. I taught her what I knew, and it worked because our magics understood each other deep down—just as our souls did.
EOS - whipped
“You will find your way, too, Dorian. You’ll find your way out.”
EOS - Rowan is so soothing
“Bring my body back to the cabin.”
EOS - hey this line broke me in ways I wasn’t expecting
Manon understood in that moment that there were forces greater than obedience, and discipline, and brutality. Understood that she had not been born soulless; she had not been born without a heart. For there were both, begging her not to swing that blade.
EOS - I love you Manon
Hand trembling, Asterin pressed her fingers to her brow and extended them. “Bring our people home, Manon,” she breathed.
EOS - screaming, crying and throwing up
“Run.” Then Manon Blackbeak whirled and brought Wind-Cleaver down upon her grandmother.
EOS - yes BITCH
