You survived; I survived. We’re together again. I once begged the gods to let me see you – if only for a moment. To see you and know you’d made it. Just once; that was all I ever hoped for.
We moved together, unending and wild and burning, and when I went over the edge the next time, he roared and went with me.
The voice was at once the night and the dawn and the stars and the earth, and every inch of my body calmed at the primal dominance in it.
I once lived in a place where the opinion of others mattered. It suffocated me, nearly broke me. So you’ll understand me, Feyre, when I say that I know what you feel, and I know what they tried to do to you, and that with enough courage, you can say to hell with a reputation. You do what you love, what you need.
You do not fear. You do not falter. You do not yield. You go in, you get her, and you come out again.
There were two men in this city responsible for destroying her life and the people she’d loved. She would not leave Rifthold until she’d buried them both.
This witch had been crafted from the darkness between the stars.
You want to know what price I asked for forgiving Arobynn, Celaena?” Sam stood so still the he might have been a statue. “My price was his oath that he’d never lay a hand on you again. I told him I’d forgive him in exchange for that.
There were few sounds she enjoyed more than the groans of dying men, but the wind was one of them.
Aelin frightens everyone.
Power called to power among the Fae. Perhaps Aelin Galathynius was unlucky the cadre had been drawn to Maeve’s power long before she was born, had chained themselves to her instead. Perhaps they were the unlucky ones, for not holding out for something better.
She’d been in love with him for a while now. Longer than she wanted to admit. She tried not to think about it, whether he felt the same. Those things – those wishes – were at the bottom of a very, very long and bloody priority list. So.
My rage had become a living thing inside my chest, an echoing heartbeat that soothed me to sleep and stirred me to waking.
Aelin hissed, “Need I remind you Captain, that you went to Endovier and did not blink at the slaves and the mass graves? Need I remind you that I was starved and chained and you let Duke Perrington force me to the ground at Dorian’s feet while you did nothing? And now you have the nerve to accuse me of not caring, when many of the people in this city have profited off the blood and misery of the very people you ignored?
From tears to sass in a few minutes. I’m glad the month apart hasn’t dimmed your usual good spirits.
Why does anything cling to something? Maybe they love wherever they’re going so much that it’s worth it. Maybe they’ll keep coming back, until there’s only one star left. Maybe that one star will make the trip forever, out of the hope that someday – if it keeps coming back often enough – another star will find it again.
I can wait,” he said thickly, kissing her collarbone. “We have all the time in the world.
Was I interrupting? I thought it was over.” Rhys gave me a smile dripping with venom. He knew-through that bond, through whatever magic was between us, he’d known I was about to say no. “At least Feyre seemed to think so.
My priority would be to protect my family – and I would have picked whatever side could keep them safest. I hadn’t thought of it as a weakness until now.
Hello, Sam,” she breathed onto the river breeze.