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She picked at the blister on her right hand, hissing "We could start a secret society--for people who don’t sleep well"
"As long as Lorcan isn’t invited, I’o"
His face turned stony "I said I would"
"You clearly haven’t"
"I’ll let it go when you stop running yourself ragged at dawn"
"I’ it"
"Rowan is the only reason you’re not li hands into fists and slid the--didn’t ask why she didn’t warers Or the air around them
He just turned to her and blinked three tiray world, and Aelin blinked back twice No
It was as ain, thrice now Are you all right?
Two blinks froht never be If the others knew, if they saw past the swagger and temper, they didn’t let on
None of theic to leap between places Not that there was anywhere to go in the middle of the sea But even when they sparred, he didn’t wield it
Perhaps it had died with Connall Perhaps it had been a gift they had both shared, and touching it was unbearable
She didn’t dare peer inward, to the churning sea inside her Couldn’t
Aelin and Fenrys stood by the field as the sun arced higher, burning off theminute, she asked, "When you took the oath to Maeve, what did her blood taste like?"
His golden brows narrowed "Like blood And power Why?"
Aelin shook her head Another dream, or hallucination "If she’s on our heels with this ar to understand it Her, I ruel in her stoed Even as she tasted ash on her tongue "Would you prefer to do it?"
"I’h his teeth "And you have more of a reason to claim it than I do"
"I’d say we have an equal claim"
His dark eyes roved over her face "Connall was a better male than--than how you saw hiripped his hand and squeezed "I know"
The last of the mists vanished Fenrys asked quietly, "Do you want me to tell you about it?"
He didn’t h" She surveyed her cold, blistered hands "I know enough," she repeated
He stiffened, a hand going to the sword at his side Not at her words, but--
Rowan dove froe
He shifted a few feet frorace as he ran the last steps toward the as she unsheathed it "What?"
Her mate just pointed to the skies
To what flew there