“Manon rose in the saddle, sliding a leg under her, body tensing to make the jump ahead. And she said to Abraxos, touching his spin, "I love you."
It was the only thing that mattered in the end. The only thing that mattered now.”
― Kingdom of Ash
It was the only thing that mattered in the end. The only thing that mattered now.”
― Kingdom of Ash
“They’d walked this dark path together back to the light. He would not let the road end here.”
― Kingdom of Ash
― Kingdom of Ash
“The curse was broken. Manon just stared at them, her breathing turning jagged. Then she roused Abraxos, and was in the saddle within heartbeats. She did not offer them any explanation, any farewell, as they leaped into the thinning night. As she guided her wyvern to the bit of blasted earth on the battlefield. Right to its heart. And smiling through her tears, laughing in joy and sorrow, Manon laid that precious flower from the Wastes upon the ground. In thanks and in love. So they would know, so Asterin would know, in the realm where she and her hunter and child walked hand in hand, that they had made it. That they were going home.”
― Kingdom of Ash
― Kingdom of Ash
“She passed through a world where a great city had been built along the curve of a river, the buildings impossibly tall and glimmering with lights.”
― Kingdom of Ash
― Kingdom of Ash
“And then finally, Aelin sat upon her throne. It weighed on her, nestled against her bones, that new burden. No longer an assassin. No longer a rogue princess. And when Aelin lifted her head to survey the cheering crowd, when she smiled, Queen of Terrasen and the Faerie Queen of the West she burned bright as a star.”
― Kingdom of Ash
― Kingdom of Ash
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