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Ansel of Briarcliff, Queen of the Wastes, drawled, “Who gave you permission to use my name in pit fights, Aelin?” “I gave myself permission to use your name however I please, Ansel, the day I spared your life instead of ending you like the coward you are.” That cocky smile widened. “Hello, bitch,” Ansel purred. “Hello, traitor,” Aelin purred right back, surveying the armada spread before them. “Looks like you made it on time after all.”
EOS - hello bitch
there is nothing unappealing about you. Nothing.
EOS - aedion is king
I knew if anyone could survive Endovier, it’d be you. I set out last summer. I’d reached the Ruhnn Mountains when I got word you were gone. Taken to the capital by …” She glanced at Dorian, stone-faced across the table. “Him. But I couldn’t go to Rifthold. It was too far, and I had been gone too long. So I turned around. Went home.” Aelin’s words were strangled. “You tried to get me out?”
EOS - wholesome
“Then finish what you started,” Manon breathed.
EOS - for all of our sakes
“It’s a traveling mirror.” Dorian nodded. “Think about Deanna’s words: ‘Flame and iron, together bound, merge into silver to learn what must be found. A mere step is all it shall take.’” He pointed to the mirror. “Step into the silver—and learn.” Manon clicked her tongue. “And I suppose she and I are flame and iron.”
EOS - 2 x queens
But Aelin and Manon pressed their joined hands to the speckled glass. Aedion’s shout of warning rang through the hold as they vanished.
EOS - bye besties
Elide sensed Lorcan’s attention and found him still watching her as he said to Rowan, “Elide gets to shore, under a guard of whatever men you can spare. My sword is yours only if you do that.” Elide started. But Rowan said, “Done.”
EOS - Elide holds so much power
Did you not consider why your father carried it, why he bided his time all these years, gathering his strength? He was to wield it—to seal the three Wyrdkeys back into the gate, and send us home before he shut the gate forever. Us, and the Dark King. The Lock was forged for us—promised to us. And you wasted it.”
EOS - I actually hate Elena tbh
“Mala’s bloodline shall bleed again to forge the Lock anew. And you will lead them, a lamb to slaughter, to pay the price of this choice you made to waste its power here, for this petty battle. You will show this future scion how to forge a new Lock with Mala’s gifts, how to then use it to wield the keys and send us home. Our original bargain still holds: we will take the Dark King with us. Tear him apart in our own world, where he will be but dust and memory. When we are gone—you will show this scion how to seal the gate behind us, the Lock holding it intact eternally. By yielding every last
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EOS - I am in PAIN
“You are Nehemia,” she said.
EOS - cool I’m crying
“In the North, two branches flow from Mala. One to the Havilliard House, where its prince with my mate’s eyes possesses my raw magic—and her brute power. The other branch flows through the Galathynius House, where it bred true: flame and embers and ashes.” “Aelin Galathynius is dead,” Nehemia said. “Not dead.”
EOS - I’m screaming I’m crying
“And the price?” Elena hated them, then. Hated the gods who had demanded this. Hated herself. Hated that this was asked, all these bright lights … “You will not see Eyllwe again.”
EOS - I’ll vomit
Rhoe—his real father—had taught him that.
EOS - Aedion baby, you can have 2 dads it’s okay!! Give Gavriel a break pls
A flash of light had sent Lysandra diving deep, weaving between the circling scavengers, blending into their masses as best as she could while she launched into a sprint. She had modified her sea dragon. Given it longer limbs—with prehensile thumbs. Given her tail more strength, more control.
EOS - Lysandra is soooooo powerful
No, as those enemy ships slid into place among their foundering companions, Dorian saw that they each bore the same flag: A silver banner, with a screaming hawk. And where Maeve’s black flag of a perching owl had once flapped beside it … now that black flag lowered. Now the dark queen’s flag vanished entirely, as Fae ships bearing the silver banner of the House of Whitethorn opened fire upon their own armada.
EOS - house Whitethorn is everything to me
Rowan had not possessed an army of his own to give to Aelin. To give to Terrasen. So he had won an army for her. Through the only things Aelin had claimed were all she wanted from him. His heart. His loyalty. His friendship. And Rowan wished his Fireheart were there to see it as the House of Whitethorn slammed into Maeve’s fleet, and ice and wind exploded across the waves.
EOS - this is so cute tho
For a heartbeat, Lorcan allowed himself to ponder it—the power of the thing that had compelled Rowan to risk it all. And Lorcan wondered if it would perhaps be the one force that Maeve, that Erawan, would not see coming.
EOS - this is a battlefield tho bestie stop thinking about love
Nameless is my price.
EOS - my heart is snapped in half
Nameless is my price. Written right there—in Wyrdmarks. The one who bore Brannon’s mark, the mark of the bastard-born nameless … She would be the cost to end this.
EOS - BRANNON PLEASE
“Was it a choice, or just to spare Gavin’s precious bloodline, that I was the one who was selected?” The voice that came from Aelin’s throat was raw, vicious. “Why spill Havilliard blood, after all, when you could fall back on old habits and choose another to bear the burden?” Elena flinched. “Dorian was not ready. You were. The choice Nehemia and I made was to ensure that things went according to plan.”
EOS - this is literally so sad
“Why did you tell me to go to Wendlyn?
EOS - don’t do it
But I sent you to Wendlyn for the healing. And so you would … find him. The one who had been waiting so long for you.”
EOS - HIM
Aelin’s heart cracked. “Rowan.”
EOS - Rowan 😭😭
“He was a voice in the void, a secret, silent dreamer. And so were his companions. But the Fae Prince, he was …”
EOS - silent dreamer
“I know. I’ve known for a long time.”
EOS - MATES
“I wanted you to know that joy, too,” Elena whispered. “However briefly.”
EOS - I get it I really do but she didn’t even consider what would happen to Rowan after she forges the lock
“I did,” Aelin managed to say. “Thank you.”
EOS - this is so upsetting
Nameless is my price. To buy them a future, she’d pay it.
EOS - I feel like I’ve been punched
Lysandra stalked up to him. A lesser man might have backed away from a predator that big prowling close. Some of his own soldiers did. But Aedion held his ground as she rose on her back legs, those huge paws settling on his shoulders, and brought her bloodied feline face up to his. Her wet whiskers twitched. Lysandra leaned in and nuzzled his cheek, his neck. Then she trotted back to her place, blood splashing beneath her silent paws. When she deigned to glance his way, spitting blood onto the deck, Aedion said softly, “The next time, do that in your human form.”
EOS - swooning
That roar sounded again as a mighty shape shot down from the heavy clouds. A wyvern. A wyvern with shimmering wings. And behind it, descending upon the Fae fleet with wicked delight, flew twelve others.
EOS - thank god Abraxos is back and thank god the 13 will be reunited
“Run,” Lorcan said in her ear. “If you wish to live, run, Elide. Shove me off—work around her command. Push me, and run.”
EOS - Lorcan pls
She would not. She’d sooner die than flee like a coward, not when Aelin was going to the mat for all of them, when—
EOS - she’s so brave
“I sever the blood oath with you, Gavriel. Without honor, without good faith. You are dismissed from my service and stripped of your title.”
EOS - HE IS HONOURABLE
you’d like for me to do the same, wouldn’t you, Fenrys? But what greater punishment for the one who is a traitor to me in his very soul than to serve me forever?” Fenrys hissed,
EOS - I cry
I saw who you loved. I saw your mate.” The sea breeze hissing through the grasses was the only sound. “What a powerhouse you two would be—you and Prince Rowan. And any offspring of that union …” A vicious smirk. “You and Rowan could rule this continent if you wished. But your children … your children would be powerful enough to rule an empire that could sweep the world.”
EOS - this is the worst
“I will kill you,” Aelin snarled at the Fae Queen. “That’s what you said to Rowan after you met him, wasn’t it?”
EOS - yeah and it was romantic
when you and your mate looked at each other with only hate in your eyes … I’ll admit I did not anticipate it. That I had broken Rowan Whitethorn so thoroughly that he did not recognize his own mate—that you were so broken by your own pain you didn’t notice, either. And when the signs appeared, the carranam bond washed away any suspicion on his part that you might be his. But not you. How long has it been, Aelin, since you realized he was your mate?”
EOS - crying
“At Temis’s temple,” Aelin admitted, glancing to Manon. “The moment the arrow went through his shoulder. Months ago.”
EOS - sobbing
“If it’s any consolation, Aelin, you would have had a thousand years with Prince Rowan. Longer.”
EOS - this is so brutal
“Cairn.”
EOS - NOPE
“Go with Manon. She will take care of you.” Elide began crying, shoving away from Lorcan. “I’ll go with you, I’ll come with you—”
EOS - Elide is everything
“Tell the others that I am sorry. Tell Lysandra to remember her promise, and that I will never stop being grateful. Tell Aedion … Tell him it is not his fault, and that …” Her voice cracked. “I wish he’d been able to take the oath, but Terrasen will look to him now, and the lines must not break.”
EOS - bro
“And tell Rowan …”
EOS - nope
“And tell Rowan,” Aelin said, fighting her own sob, “that I’m sorry I lied. But tell him it was all borrowed time anyway. Even before today, I knew it was all just borrowed time, but I still wish we’d had more of it.” She fought past her trembling mouth. “Tell him he has to fight. He must save Terrasen, and remember the vows he made to me. And tell him … tell him thank you—for walking that dark path with me back to the light.”
EOS - they saved each other and they deserve so much
“Ten lashes, Cairn. Let Her Majesty have a taste of what to expect when we reach our destination, if she does not cooperate.” “It would be my pleasure, Lady.”
EOS - nope nope nope I cannot
Grateful she had met them all, that she had seen some small part of the world, had heard such lovely music, had danced and laughed and known true friendship. Grateful that she had found Rowan. She was grateful. So Aelin Galathynius dried her tears. And did not fight when Maeve strapped that beautiful iron mask over her face.
EOS - literally stop
Lorcan fell to his knees. “I do not suffer fools gladly,” Maeve said, leaving him in the sand, and walked away. As if she’d dealt him a blow, the twin to Gavriel’s, Lorcan couldn’t seem to move, to think or breathe. He tried crawling, though. Toward Maeve. The bastard tried crawling.
EOS - CRAWLING
Elide remained in the grass. Watching Lorcan crawl toward the queen now striding across the beach, black gown flowing behind her.
EOS - elide baby
Rowan hissed, “Where is my wife?”
EOS -WHERE IS MY WIFE!!!!!!
Lorcan’s own fractured heart. “Oh, gods …” And for the first time in centuries, Lorcan wept.
EOS - this is so sad I’m shaken
