A sliver of island in the heart of a mist-veiled river, little more than a smooth slab of rock amid the rapids and falls. That’s where they’d put her. Stored her. In a stone temple built for some forgotten god.
Luck and glory. I wouldn’t mind a little of either of those things these days.
I see you, Quinlan, he silently conveyed to her. And I like all of it. Right back at you, her half smile seemed to say.
Her wrath became a song in her blood as she ended them.
Punish them all.
But now, faced with Ressina’s communal studio, already hearing the laughter flitting out from where she and others had gathered for their weekly paint-in, my resolve sputtered out. I don’t know if I can do this. Rhys was quiet for a moment. Do you want me to come with you? To paint? I’d be an excellent nude model. I smiled, not caring that I was by myself in the street with countless people streaming past me.
He winked at my gaping mouth. “I had to keep myself busy to avoid missing you.” Mor.
Honestly, Dorian had no idea how Aelin had survived months of this – let alone fallen in love with the warrior while she did. Though he supposed both the queen and prince possessed a sadistic streak that made them compatible. Some.
And what’s wrong with headstrong girls?” she pressed. “Other than the fact that they’re not wooden-headed ninnies who can only open their mouths to give orders and gossip?
Dorian offered a lazy grin in return, believe it or not, this ship has an unnatural number of attractive men and women on board. You’ll fit right in, and fit in with the cranky immortals, I suppose.
It was foolish to even start down this road, when every other man she’d let in had left some wound, in one way or another, accidentally or not.
Lysandra said softly, “I will not apologize to you. I serve her. And I am willing to spend the rest of my life pretending to be her so that her sacrifice isn’t in vain – ” “You.
You do what you love, what you need.
His lips crushed into hers and and he said dropping words more precious than rubies and emeralds and sapphires into her heart, her soul, ‘I love you. There is no limit to what I can give you, no time I need. Even when this world is forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you.
He had leapt from the cliff. He could only wait for the net.
I’m not sure if I want it to go back to the way it was before,” she admitted. “And I think... I think that’s what scares me the most.
Behind her, the Fae warrior observed every flicker of movement. He’d be the deadly one – the one to look out for. It had been fifty years since she’d fought a Fae warrior. Bedded him, then fought him. He’d left the bones of her arm in pieces. She’d just left him in pieces. But he had been young, and arrogant, and barely trained. This male... He might very well be capable of killing at least a few of her Thirteen if she so much as harmed a hair on the queen’s head.
We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world.
Chaol took a shuddering breath. “What did Aelin promise you?” Hasar smiled to herself. “A better world.
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.