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Children. His children. Their children. With another mere weeks from being born. His family. The family he might have, the future he might have. The most beautiful thing he’d ever seen.
KOA - Rowan you are killing me slowly my guy
Fenrys’s claws clicked on stone, the sound no doubt meant to signal her that he remained nearby.
KOA - this breaks my heart so deeply. He can’t do anything to help but the kindness of letting her know he is with her. I’m sobbing
“I think you know how this shall go, Aelin of the Wildfire.” Aelin said nothing. Maeve gave a nod. Cairn shoved her forward, right into the glass. Her bare feet sliced open, new skin shrieking as it ripped. She inhaled sharply through her teeth, swallowing her cry just as Cairn pushed her onto her knees.
KOA - I am cringing so hard
Fenrys’s dark eyes shot toward her. He blinked four times.
KOA - STOP I’m crying
“Tell me where you hid the Wyrdkeys, swear the blood oath … The order doesn’t matter, I suppose.” Aelin opened her eyes. Lifted her bound hands before her. And gave Maeve an obscene gesture, as filthy and foul as she’d ever made.
KOA - also my response to my torturer
The blade plunged down. Not into Fenrys. But Connall’s own heart.
KOA - this is so awful. I hate Maeve so much
Fenrys’s howl cleaved the night.
KOA - my heart :(
Beyond words, unsure her throat would even work, Aelin blinked three times. Are you all right? Two blinks answered. No.
KOA - this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me
“I’ll be as quick as I can.” Biting her lip hard enough to draw blood, Aelin turned her head away while the first piece of glass slid from her knee. Flesh and sinew sundered anew. Salt overpowered the tang of her blood, and she knew he was crying. The scent of their tears filled the tiny room as he worked. Neither of them said a word.
KOA - this should be illegal
Ren Allsbrook had even commissioned plated armor for the leopard’s chest, sides, and flanks. So light as to not be a hindrance, but solid enough that the three blows she’d been too slow to stop—an arrow to the side, then two slashes from enemy swords—had been deflected.
KOA - I literally need Ren to have a bigger part in this book
“Nox Owen.”
KOA - hey baby
Fireheart, why do you cry?
KOA - stopppp
You have been very brave, her mother said. You have been very brave, for so very long.
KOA - my heart
But you must be brave a little while longer, my Fireheart.
KOA - please let her rest
You must be brave a little while longer, and remember …
KOA - stop I can’t take it
It is the strength of this that matters. No matter where you are, no matter how far, this will lead you home.
KOA - well and truly crying
It is the strength of this that matters, Aelin.
KOA - PLEASE
The strength of this.
KOA - no words
On a dark hilltop overlooking a sleeping kingdom, Rowan froze.
KOA - PLEASE
From down the hill, Lorcan rasped, “Rowan.” It was impossible, utterly impossible, and yet— “North,” Gavriel said, turning his bay gelding. “The surge came from the North.” From Doranelle.
KOA - Elide knew
It filled him with sound, with fire and light. As if it screamed, again and again, I am alive, I am alive, I am alive. And then silence. Like it had been cut off. Extinguished.
KOA - baby
“No threats from the White Demon?”
KOA - Manon being called the white demon is everything you me
“I was her great-grandmother.” Even the whipping wind quieted. “As I am yours.”
KOA - obsessed with Glennis
The Ironteeth had found them. Far sooner than Manon had planned.
KOA - stress
Glennis let her arrow fly, and Dorian echoed her blow with one of his own. A lance of solid ice, careening for the exposed, mottled chest. Both arrow and ice spear drove home, and black blood spewed downward—before the wyvern and rider went crashing into a peak, and flipped over the cliff face. Glennis grinned, that aged face lighting. “I struck first.” She drew another arrow. Such lightness, even in the face of an ambush. “I wish you were my great-grandmother,” Dorian muttered, and readied his next blow.
KOA - this is very cute
Manon’s golden eyes glowed in the firelight. “I swear it. I did not lead them here.” Glennis nodded, but Dorian stared at Manon. Damaris had gone cold as ice. So cold the golden hilt bit into his skin.
KOA - OMG Manon!!!! Lowkey so smart tho
She was a liar, and a killer, and would likely have to be both again before this was through. But Manon had no regrets about what she’d done. Had no room in her for regret.
KOA - nah she’s just a smartie pants
Bronwen leveled her burning stare on Manon. “You are not our queen, despite what your blood might suggest. Despite this little skirmish. We do not, and will never, answer to you.”
KOA - I actually love Bronwen
Manon found Glennis wincing slightly. “Our family, you will find, has a hotheaded streak.”
KOA - HAHAHAA
Manon surveyed the tight space, the second bedroll and blanket. “Thirteen is an uneven number,” she said by way of explanation. “I’ve always had a tent to myself.” “Sorry to ruin that for you.” She cut him a drily amused glance before seating herself on the bedroll and unlacing her boots.
KOA - like she even cares babes
Her only answer was to slide over him, strands of her hair falling around them in a curtain. “I said I don’t want to talk,” she breathed, and lowered her mouth to his neck.
KOA - lord have MERCY
“What would it take—to win the Crochans over? To join us in war?” Glennis adjusted her cape in the mirror. “Only a Crochan Queen may ignite the Flame of War, to summon every witch from her hearth.” Manon blinked at the frank answer. “The Flame of War?”
KOA - Glennis is everything
“Erawan likes to play his little mind games, to drum up fear. Let him wonder and worry why Aelin hasn’t wielded hers yet. Contemplate if she’s storing it up for something grand.” A roguish wink at her. “I do hope it will be horrific.” Lysandra gave the queen a slash of a smile. “Oh, it will be.”
KOA - Lysandras war council skills are unmatched but Ansel really came in clutch here
“So, Erawan knows you’re not Aelin.”
KOA - I really love Nox
“Your secret is safe,” Nox murmured. “Celaena—Aelin was a friend. Is still one, I’d hope.” “How.” She’d admit no more than that regarding her role in this. “We fought in the competition together at the glass castle.” He snorted. “I had no idea until today. Gods, I was there for Minister Joval as a spy for the rebels. It was my first time out of Perranth. My first time, and I wound up unwittingly training alongside my queen.”
KOA - so obsessed with this
“Don’t you talk to him like that,” Yrene said with dangerous calm. His father ignored her. But Yrene stepped up to Chaol’s side once more. “I am the heir apparent to the Healer on High of the Torre Cesme. I came at your son’s behest, back to the lands of my birth, to help in this war, along with two hundred healers from the Torre itself. Your son spent the last several months forging an alliance with the khaganate, and now all of the khagan’s armies sail to this continent to save your people. So while you sit here in your miserable keep, tossing insults at him, know that he has done what no
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KOA - YES BABE
Fenrys blinked four times. I am here, I am with you. She answered in kind. I am here, I am with you.
KOA - my heart
Elide didn’t back down for a heartbeat. “I’m going to ask after Cairn.” They all stilled. Rowan wasn’t entirely certain he’d heard her correctly. Elide steadily surveyed them. “Surely a young, mortal woman is allowed to inquire about a Fae male who jilted her.” Lorcan went pale as the moon above them. “Elide.” When she didn’t reply, Lorcan whirled on Rowan. “We’ll scout, there’s another way to—”
KOA - Elide is forever the smartest
“Why should I believe you?” “Because you are wearing Lorcan’s shirt, and Rowan Whitethorn’s cloak. If you do not believe me, inform them who told you and they will.”
KOA - AHHHH
“He and the blue one are mates.” Asterin started. “They’re what?” The Crochan pointed to the blue mare huddled beside Abraxos. “He is smaller, yet he dotes on her. Nuzzles her when no one is looking.” Manon exchanged a glance with Asterin. Their mounts incessantly flirted, yes, but to mate—
KOA - 2 wyverns, loving each other
“I care about more than I should. I even care about you.”
KOA - poor Dorian
“Oh, I know there’s not much worth seeing in that regard, Cairn. And you’re not enough of a male to be able to use it without someone screaming, are you?”
KOA - got him good
Fenrys had seen his twin drive a knife through his heart. Had watched Connall bleed out onto the tiles and die. And had then been ordered to kneel before Maeve in that very blood as she’d bade him to attend her.
KOA - this is literally the worst thing I’ve ever read
She blinked at him. Four times. I am here, I am with you. Fenrys knew it for what it was. The final message. Not before death, but before the sort of breaking that no one would walk away from.
KOA - my heart is breaking
Fenrys couldn’t allow it.
KOA - my heart is broken
He shredded into it, biting and tearing with every scrap of defiance he possessed. Let it kill him, wreck him. He would not serve. Not another heartbeat. He would not obey. He would not obey. And slowly, Fenrys got to his feet.
KOA - Fenrys ready to die in defiance of Maeve and out of love for Aeilin 😭
With a roar, Fenrys leaped. And with it, he snapped the blood oath completely.
KOA - I am so proud of you my sweet baby wolf boy
Run. Aelin did not hesitate. She sprinted for the tent flaps. And into the morning beyond.
kOA - I am so STRESSED
when Aelin Galathynius appeared. Lorcan didn’t expect the sob in his throat as she raced between the tents, as he beheld the iron mask and the chains on her, hands still bound.
KOA - LORCAN SOBBING
He signaled again. To me, to me. Whether Aelin recognized it, or him, she still raced his way.
KOA - PLEASE
