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She felt Nehe out at the wet streets, slick fro to ice After a while, Celaena asked, "Do you ever wonder what it’d be like if we truly were ordinary people?"

The princess chewed on her lip "Sometimes"

"Do you ever wish you were? Ordinary, Imoment, her eyes distant, as if she beheld so under a hot summer sun "It is my most selfish wish and daydream--to be normal, to be ordinary, to be free of my burdens"

She hadn’t realized she’d been holding her breath, hadn’t realized just how important Nehehed "And yet you and I couldn’t even pretend for a single day to be free of those burdens"

"I’m sorry," Nehemia said quietly

"What have you to be sorry for? It was a foolish demand to make of you, anyway"

"I wish you could have a nor But just a norood, calm life"

"I don’t have an interest in norirl, I wouldn’t want to be surrounded by ordinary folk No, I’ll take the rebel princesses and the sons of kings and the grumpy captains and the whores and the thieves any day And I’d take you over a thousand ordinary girls"

Neheh that Celaena had to turn to thebefore she felt the sting in her own eyes

The carriage turned down an avenue, and the glass castle arose before theht sky

"I a into the darkness of the carriage "It’d be so boring if ere"

Celaena grinned "Incredibly boring"

"And, for what it’s worth, I’d pick you over a thousand ordinary and extraordinary friends I think even if we just , I’d knohat you are"

Celaena cocked her head to the side "An assassin?"

Neheht as she shook her head "The sister of my heart"

Celaena had to turn away When she at last looked back, she didn’t knoho reached for who, but a htly in Nehemia’s

"I think I’d know, too," Celaena said quietly, and leaned against her friend’s shoulder Both sh the quieting city and into the glass castle beyond