Laura Lopes

“Because to stand against it would be to provoke the Mask's wrath. To stand against it would be to stand against Death itself.

Death herself.

Azriel shook, weathering that primal power.

But they were both Illyrian, whether Az liked it or not. And so they did what their people had always done before Death's beautiful face. They bowed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames