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"How can you have looked at Kaltain and not seen what awaits you?" She held up her arm and pointed to where Kaltain’s scar had been "Eraill catch you You cannot go"
"We will lose this war if I do not go," he snapped "How do you not care about that?"
"I care," she hissed "I care if we lose this war I care if I fail to rally the Crochans I care if you go into Morath and do not return, not as so" He only blinked Manon spat on theis not such a bad thing? Well, this is what co," he breathed
Her heart turned raging, its pulse echoing through her body, though her words were cold as ice "You wish to go to Morath?" She prowled up to him, and he didn’t back down an inch "Then prove it Prove you are ready"
"I don’t need to prove anything to you, witchling"
She gave him a brutal, wicked smile "Then perhaps prove it to yourself A test" He’d deceived her, had lied to her This man who she’d believed held no secrets between the within sight "We fly to the Ferian Gap with the dawn" He started, but she went on, "Join us We will have need of a spy on the inside Souards to tell us what and who lies within" She barely heard herself over the roaring in her head "Let’s see hoell you can shape-shift then, princeling"
Manon forced herself to hold his stare To let her words hang between the for the caht"
CHAPTER 41
They reached the sea under cover of darkness, warned of its arrival by the briny scent that crept into the cave, then the rougher waters that pushed past, and then finally the roar of the surf
Maeve’s eyes ht have been everywhere, but they weren’t fixed on the caveWendlyn’s western shore Nor were they on that cove when the boat landed on its sandy beach, then vanished back into the caves before anyone could so much as attempt to thank the creatures who had hauled them without rest
Aelin watched the boat until it disappeared, trying not to stare too long at the clean, unstained sand beneath her boots, while the others debated where theynorthward, into Wendlyn’s lands, and they got their answer: close enough to the nearest port
The tide ith thehts, it was atheir ar for Terrasen’s shores, the rules about border crossings had been revoked Gone were the several boat transfers to reach the continent across the sea, the securitywith an aerial legion
It o out, too Whether the letter to Aedion and Lysandra would reach theods, she supposed, since they seeht not bother with her now, if Dorian was heading for the third key, if he
The ship was a step above ramshackle, all the finer vessels coh to old they paid, the captain yielded his own quarters to Aelin and Rowan If the
Aelin didn’t care Only that they sailed with thetheathered forces
Frolimpsed that day in Maeve’s throne room, the dark blood that had turned to red
She hadn’t told the others Didn’t know if that ht If it had been another dreament that had blended into the very real memory of Connall’s death
She’d deal with it later, Aelin decided as she stood by the prow, the others long since having gone to their own quarters belowdecks Only Rowan remained, perched on the ns of pursuit
They’d evaded Maeve For now Tonight, at least, she wouldn’t knohere to find theers in that port, of the ship they’d paid a king’s fortune to take thees Aelin had sent
At least Maeve didn’t knohere the Wyrdkeys were They still had that in their favor
Though Maeve was likely to bring her army across the sea to hunt them down Or simply aid in Terrasen’s de in her blood She ground her teeth and paid it no attention
Everything relied upon the the continent before Maeve and her forces Or before Erawan could destroy tooit seep into her skin, her hair, letting it wash away the dark of the caves, if the dark of the priorit soothe her fire into slu embers
These weeks at sea would be endless, even with Rowan’stheer and bow until her hands were blistered, until new calluses formed Until the thinness returned to muscle
She’d rebuild it--what she had been