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Maeve’s eyes glowed "She cost dom, ht have had in this war, any ht have offered, vanished the moment she and her mate left"

They’d found her Somehow, they’d found her And Anielle--did he dare hope Chaol ht have roared his victory But Maeve continued, "Aelin Galathynius will come for me, if she survives you I do not plan to allow her the chance to do so"

Erawan’s sether can we ensure Brannon’s bloodline is toppled forever Never to rise again"

"Then why not kill her, when you had her?"

"Would you have done so, brother? Would you not have tried to turn her?"

Erawan’s silence was confirreat deal before me, sister Do you expect me to believe you so readily?"

"I anticipated that" Her lips curved "After all, I have nothing left but my oers"

Erawan said nothing, as if well aware of the dance the queen led him in

She extended a moon-white hand toward the center of the roo to the table, should it interest you"

A flick of her slender fingers, and a hole simply appeared in the heart of the cha hi to hide his tre as a horror only true darkness could craft appeared on the other side of that hole The portal

"I had forgotten you’dat the thing that noed to theotten that they still bothered to answer to you," Eraent on

"When the Fae castfaintly at the enormous spider, "I returned to those who have always been loyal to ian spiders have become their own creatures," Erawan countered "Your list of allies re "These are not the stygian spiders"

Through the portal, Dorian could ed, ashen rock Mountains

"These are the kharankui, as the people of the southern continent call them My most loyal handain

Erawan’s face turned cool and bored "What use would I have for theestured to the s beyond, the hellscape he’d crafted "I have created armies of beasts loyal to me I do not need a few hundred spiders"

Maeve didn’t so much as falter "My hand They speak to s-on in the world And spoke to rand plans"

Dorian braced hi princesses need hosts You have had difficulty in securing ones powerful enough to hold theed to survive the one you planted in her, and isprincesses In the southern continent Chaol--

"I’," Erawan said

Maeve pointed to the spider still bowing at the portal--the portal to the southern continent, opened as easily as a"Why bother with huht create ones far old eyes slid to the spider "You and your kin would allow this?" His first words to the creature

The spider’s pincers clicked, her horrible eyes blinking "It would be our honor to prove our loyalty to our queen"

Maeve smiled at the spider Dorian shuddered

"I "With their innate gifts, iht thrive within the a horror beyond all reckoning