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“Her name was Rhiannon, after the last Crochan Queen. And she was your half sister. She confessed it to me upon our tables. She thought it’d save her life. And when she saw what you had become, she chose to let the knowledge die with her.”
EOS - this is actually devastating tho
“Men will not fear the threat of a brother. I would still be unclaimed—still be open for … invitations. I have seen how little respect men have for anything they think they are entitled to. So you are my husband,” she hissed, “until I say otherwise.”
EOS - Elide is the absolute baddest bitch
“If you do not fight in this war, Gavriel, then you doom your son to die.” Gavriel froze.
EOS - yes bestie
Manon awoke at twilight. Abraxos was curled around her, his wing angled to form a makeshift covering. At least she was warm. But her thirst… Manon groaned, and the wing instantly snapped back, revealing a leathery head and concerned eyes. “You … mother hen,”
EOS - 2 best friends
Aelin said to Rowan with a secret smile, “You, I don’t know. But I’d like to.” Rowan’s lips tugged upward. “I’m not on the market, unfortunately.” “Pity,” Aelin said, cocking her head as she noticed a bowl of small emeralds on Rolfe’s desk. Don’t do it, don’t— Aelin swiped up the emeralds in a hand, picking them over as she glanced at Rowan beneath her lashes. “She must be a rare, staggering beauty to make you so faithful.” Gods save them all. He could have sworn Fenrys coughed behind him. Aelin chucked the emeralds into the metal dish as if they were bits of copper, their plunking the only
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EOS - give Rowan the academy award
Dorian said smoothly, “You will find, Rolfe, that one does not deal with Celaena Sardothien. One survives her.”
EOS - truth
“Allow me to introduce to you, Captain Rolfe, the incomparable, the beautiful, and the absolutely and all-around flawless Queen of Terrasen.”
EOS - this entire scene is everything to me
Rowan added, “And I missed you like hell.”
EOS - please
Aelin decided she didn’t particularly give a shit who was watching and rose up on her toes to brush her mouth against his. It had taken all her wits and abilities to avoid leaving traces of her scent today for him to detect—and the shocked delight on his face had been utterly worth it. Rowan’s hand on her arm tightened as she pulled away. “The feeling, Prince,” she murmured, “is mutual.”
EOS -love youuuuuu
Aedion snarled at her. Lysandra snarled right back and held his stare with the face not trained or built for bedrooms, but the true one beneath—wild and unbroken and indomitable. No matter what body she wore, she was the Staghorns given form, the heart of Oakwald.
EOS - the way they flirt is too much
there, around her perfect, lovely other ankle, was its twin.
EOS - bro is acting like he hates her but in his mind even calls her ankles perfect??? Simp
“You look … ,” Gavriel breathed, sinking into his chair. “You look so much like her.”
EOS - stop it I’m crying
A broad jade-green snout, peppered with shredding white teeth, huffed a mighty breath then arced back under the water, revealing a flash of a massive head and cunning eyes as she disappeared. Some men screamed. Rolfe braced a hand on the wheel. His first mate, that sea dragon sword freshly polished at his side, dropped to his knees.
EOS - Lysandra baby
“Because I am going to marry you,” he promised her. “One day. I am going to marry you. I’ll be generous and let you pick when, even if it’s ten years from now. Or twenty. But one day, you are going to be my wife.”
EOS - I’m swooning tbh
“Because I’m the only one arrogant and insane enough to ask Mala Fire-Bringer to let me stay with the woman I love.”
EOS - LOVE!?!?!?!
“Something tells me,” he said, his breath skittering along her skin, “you might not mind if we were discovered. If someone saw how thoroughly I plan to worship you.”
EOS - put your money where your mouth it bro
“I love you. I am in love with you, Rowan. I have been for a while. And I know there are limits to what you can give me, and I know you might need time—” His lips crushed into hers, and he said onto her mouth, dropping words more precious than rubies and emeralds and sapphires into her heart, her soul, “I love you. There is no limit to what I can give to you, no time I need. Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you.”
EOS - babies
Elide hissed, “I was wrong. I said you and I were the same—that we had no family, no friends. But I have none because land and circumstance separate me from them. You have none because no one can stomach being around you.” She tried—and succeeded, if the ire that rippled in his eyes was any indication—to look down her nose at him, even with him towering over her. “And you know what is the biggest lie you tell everyone, Lorcan? It’s that you prefer it that way. But what I hear, when you rant about my bitch-queen? All I hear are the words of someone who is deeply, deeply jealous, and lonely, and
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EOS- Elide is so savage
“As far as anyone’s concerned, you’re still my wife.” Elide didn’t object—even
EOS - like he wants. He’s obsessed with her
Here’s hoping you discover more creative terms than “bitch” to call me when you find this. With all my love, A.A.G.
EOS - LOL
And he’d make the Queen of Terrasen crawl before the end of it.
EOS - is this foreshadowing
“I do not care if you are Fae, or human, if you are Valg or a gods-damned skinwalker. You are what you are. And what I want … what I need, Rowan, is someone who does not apologize for it. For who they are. You have never once done so.” She leaned forward to kiss the bare skin where her hand had been. “Please don’t start doing it now.
EOS - please
She began to unbutton the white shirt she’d been wearing for gods knew how long, but he growled, “I’ll do it myself.” Like hell he would. She touched the second button. Invisible hands wrapped around her wrists, tightly enough that she dropped the shirt. Dorian prowled to her. “I said that I’d do it.” Manon took in each inch of him as he towered over her, and a shiver of pleasure rippled through her. “I suggest you listen.”
EOS - Daddy shadow hands, king of Adarlan and rizz
Elide was sobbing. In terror and despair. Each sound whetted his rage into something so lethal Lorcan could barely see straight.
EOS - Lorcan “we haven’t spoken in 3 days and I don’t care about her” Salvaterre
For the first time in five centuries, Lorcan knew true fear as Elide turned that knife on herself, the blade angled to plunge up and into her heart.
EOS - WHIPPED
“I want Erawan to know that the next time he sends you after me like a pack of dogs, I’ll return the favor. I want Erawan to know that the next time I see him, I will carve Manon’s name on his gods-damned heart.” Tears rolled down her face, silent and unending as the wrath that now sculpted her features into a thing of mighty and terrible beauty. “But it seems like tonight isn’t really your night,” Elide said to the ilken, lifting the hatchet again over a shoulder. The ilken might have been whimpering as she smiled grimly. “Because it takes only one to deliver a message. And your companions
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EOS - Elide is a badass I will fall at her feet
he sheathed the hatchet and scooped her into his arms. She didn’t object.
EOS - my loves
“I will always find you,” he swore to her. Her throat bobbed. Lorcan whispered, “I promise.”
EOS - why am I crying
Elide stood on her toes, kissed his stubble-rough cheek, and said, “I will always find you, too, Lorcan.”
EOS - my loves I CANT
“I have been in love with Maeve since I first laid eyes on her.”
EOS - surely not
His face grew grave—thoughtful. “I do not mind … being around you.” “Is that a compliment?” A half smile cut across his granite-hewn face.
EOS - I love soft Lorcan
replacing her mouth where her fingers had been. The kiss was soft, and quiet, and brief. Barely a grazing of her lips against his.
EOS - these hero’s have no idea how to be lovers it’s so cute
“You don’t need to answer me now. Or ever. You could show up on my doorstep in ten years, and the offer would still stand. But there is a place for you, in Perranth—if you should ever need or wish for it.”
EOS - Elide is just such a cutie
his hands equally so as they stroked the hair back from her brow,
EOS - I bet his hands are bigger than her head tho
Lorcan breathed her name over and over onto her skin. Like a prayer, that was how her name sounded on his lips.
EOS - fire emoji
“Kill me. If that order is given. Kill me, Rowan, before I have to do it.” “You’ll be dead before you can get within a foot of her.” Not a threat—a promise and a plain statement of fact. Fenrys’s shoulders slumped in thanks. “I’m glad, you know,” Fenrys said with unusual graveness, “that I got this time. That Maeve unintentionally gave me that. That I got to know what it was like—to be here, as a part of this.” Rowan didn’t have words, so he looked to Gavriel. But the Lion was merely nodding as he stared down at the little camp below. At his sleeping son.
EOS - my heart breaks for the cadre it’s so sad
Lorcan sent out another flickering blast of his power. Not toward the winged army that raced not too far ahead, but farther—toward wherever Whitethorn and his bitch-queen might be in this festering place.
EOS - still pretending to hate the fire squad?? Rude
The Queen of Flame and Shadow, the Heir of Fire, Aelin of the Wildfire, Fireheart …
EOS - mummy
“What is … ,” Elide breathed, but Lorcan lunged for her, hurling them to the ground, covering her body with his. He threw a shield over them, plummeting hard and fast into his magic, the drop nearly uncontrolled. He didn’t have time to do anything but pour every ounce of power into his shield,
EOS - protect baby at all costs
He knew Whitethorn. He knew the prince wasn’t ambitious—not in the way that immortals could be. He likely would have loved the woman if she’d been ordinary. But this power … In his wasteland of a soul, Lorcan felt that tug. Hated it.
EOS - he actually loves her
Lorcan flipped her over, his breathing ragged, his face bloody and pale as he took in her face, her arm. “ElideElideElide—” She couldn’t draw breath, couldn’t see around the sensation that her arm was mere shredded flesh and splintered bone— Lorcan grabbed her face before she could look and snapped, “Why did you do that? Why?” He didn’t wait for an answer.
EOS - he is so obsessed with her
Lorcan tensed as if sensing the oblivion that threatened. “You heal her,” he said to the gentle-eyed male, “and then we continue—” “No,” she got out. Not for this, not for her— Lorcan’s onyx eyes were unreadable as he scanned her face. And then he said quietly, “I wanted to go to Perranth with you.” Lorcan dropped the shield.
EOS - STOP
“She told me to tell you …” A shuddering inhale. But Aelin didn’t break her stare, even as tears continued cutting through the dirt on her cheeks. “Your mother told me to tell you that she loves you—very much. Those were her last words to me. ‘Tell my Elide I love her very much.’”
EOS - my loves
Elide sobbed as Manon Blackbeak emerged, smiling faintly. As Manon Blackbeak saw her and Aelin, knee-to-knee in the grass, and mouthed one word. Hope. Not dead. None of them were dead.
EOS - Girlfriends back together
“I’m here,” Elide said as Aelin fixed those unnervingly vivid eyes on her, “because of Kaltain Rompier.”
EOS - literally I can’t
None of them spoke or moved. She couldn’t tell if it made it worse. If the hand that Lorcan laid on her back made her cry harder.
EOS - Elide has done so much
Aelin now glanced between them, seeing too much. And there was no warmth on the queen’s face, but she said to Lorcan, “Thank you—for bringing her to me.”
EOS - loves
Manon ordered, “On your feet. We were in the middle of something.” She reached to pull Elide up, but Lorcan stepped in and did it himself. He didn’t let go of Elide’s arm, and she tried not to lean into his warmth. Tried not to make it seem like she hadn’t just met her queen, her friend, her court, and … somehow now found Lorcan to be the safest of them all. Manon smirked at Lorcan. “Your claim on her, male, is at the very bottom of the list.” Iron teeth slid out, turning that beautiful face petrifying. Lorcan didn’t let go.
EOS - this is literally so cute
Manon crooned in that way that usually meant death, “Don’t. Touch. Her.” “You don’t give me orders, witch,” Lorcan said. “And you have no say in what is between us.” Elide frowned at him. “You’re making it worse.”
EOS - Elide is actually loving the attention tho
Because a hundred gray sails stretched ahead, surrounding their own ships. They spread toward the western horizon, utterly silent save for the men they could barely make out on board. Ships from the west … from the Gulf of Oro. Melisande’s fleet.
EOS - a lot of ships
