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I will find you
That flicker he could have sworn he felt in answer, like the fluttering heart of an ember.
Unleashing a cry that set the world trembling, Prince Rowan Whitethorn Galathynius, Consort of the Queen of Terrasen, began the hunt to find his wife.
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OMGG AELIN IS SUCH A MASTERMIND SHE GOT ALL THE PEOPLE WHO OWE HER LIFE DEBTS TO COME AND ALLY WITH HER AMAZING CONCOCTING THIS PLAN WHILE HAVING TO DEAL WITH HER EVENTUAL DEATH TO SAVE EVERYONE. AMAZING ASSASIN SKEEMING QUEEN OF TERRASEN OBSESSED WITH HER. Like rowan im shocked each time with her actions and plans amazing

“Galan only smiled a bit and pointed to the eastern horizon.
Where white sails now broke over its rim. Ship after ship after ship, each bearing the cobalt flag of Wendlyn.
“Tell Aelin Galathynius that Wendlyn has never forgotten Evalin Ashryver,” Galan said to him, to Aedion. “Or Terrasen.”
Aedion fell to his knees in the sand as Wendlyn’s armada spread before them.”

His Fireheart.

“His equal, his friend, his lover. His wife.
His mate.
That gods-damned bitch had put her in an iron box.
She’d whipped his mate so brutally that he’d rarely seen such blood spilled as a result. Then chained her. Then put Aelin in a veritable iron coffin, still bleeding, still hurting.
To contain her. To break her. To torture her.
His Fireheart, locked in the dark.
She’d tried to him 😭

“I have them,” Manon said simply. “Aelin slid them into my pocket.”
It’s why I couldn’t do anything about it,” Manon said. “To help her. I had to look uninvolved. Neutral.” From where he sat on the beach below, Aedion had twisted toward them, his keen Fae hearing feeding him every word. Manon said to all of them, “I am sorry. I’m sorry I couldn’t help.”

“Manon looked behind them. To the north.
“I am going to find the Crochans. And I am going to raise an army with them. For Aelin Galathynius. And her people. And for ours.”
“They’ll never trust us,” Sorrel said.”
“Then we’ll have to just be our charming selves.”
Some of them smirked; some of them shifted on their feet.

“Aelin Galathynius willingly handed over her freedom so an Ironteeth witch could walk free,” Manon said. Elide straightened, pulling from Asterin’s arms. But Manon continued, “We owe her a life debt. And more than that … It is time that we became better than our foremothers. We are all children of this land.”

“when were you going toreveal this?Before or after I thought I wastakingmy gods-damnedcousin to bed for whatever reason you concocted?”
“I will notapologize to you. Iserve her. And I am willing to spend therest ofmy life pretending to be her so that her sacrifice isn’t in vain—”
“You can go to hell,” Aedion snapped. “You can go to hell,you lying bitch!”
Lysandra’s answeringsnarl wasn’thuman.

“Aedion snarled, “What could you possibly …”
Lysandra lifted her chin.
Rowan breathed, “Aelin would die to forge the new Lock to seal the keys into the gate—to banish Erawan. But no one would know. No one but us. Not while you wore her skin for the rest of your life.”
Aedion dragged a hand through his blood-caked hair. “But any offspring with Rowan wouldn’t look anything like—”

“Aelin had let them whip and chain her, had gone willingly with Maeve, so Elide didn’t enter Cairn’s clutches. And it had been just as much a sacrifice for Elide as it had been a gift to him.
She had bowed to Maeve.
For Elide.”
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