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The force of Rowan’sIce and wind turned to searing fla, at the power that flowed from Rowan and into her At her side, her mate held fast Unbreakable
Rowan smiled--fierce and feral and wicked A crown of flame, twin to her own, appeared atop his head
As one, they looked to Maeve
Maeve hissed, her dark power ain "Rowan Whitethorn does not have the brute power that you once did"
"Perhaps he doesn’t," Lorcan said froether, we do" He glanced to Aelin, a hand rising to the angry red burna h the snoith the blood she’d spilled--her blood, and Rowan’s--"I think they have plenty, too"
Light flared at their feet, and Maeve’s power surged--but too late
The portal opened Exactly as the Wyrdht from the southern continent had promised
Precisely to where Aelin had intended Where she had gliate Where she and Rowan had ventured days ago, testing this very portal
The forest glen was silvered in the e, old trees--older than even those in Oakwald Trees that could only be found north of Terrasen, in the hinterlands beyond
But it was not the trees thatbeneath their heavy furs Arowled Wolves with riders
Down the battlefield, portal after portal opened Right where Rowan and the cadre had drawn theht All to be opened upon this spell This co mass of people could be seen The army
"I heard you planned to come here, you see," Aelin said to Maeve, Rowan’s power a sy the kharankui-princesses with you" She s soures beyond the portal ereat silver wolf And even with the furs over her heavy armor, the female’s arched ears could be seen
"The Fae elled in Terrasen were not wiped out so thoroughly," Aelin said Lorcan began grinning "They found a new ho those wolves As all the myths had claimed "And did you know that while many of them came here with Brannon, there was an entire clan of Fae who arrived fro you, I think All of them, actually, don’t really like you, I’m sorry to say"
More and more Fae and wolf-riders stepped toward the portal, weapons out Beyond the into the distance, their host flowed
Maeve backed away a step Just one
"But you knoho they hate even more?" Aelin pointed with Goldryn toward the battlefield "Those spiders Nesryn Faliq told me all about how their ancestors battled them in the southern continent How they fled you when you tried to keep their healers chained, and then wound up having to battle your little friends And when they came to Terrasen, they still rerewTrained them"
The Fae and their wolves beyond the portals now fixed their sights on the kharankui hybrids at last e onto the plain
"I told them I’d deal with you myself," Aelin said, and Rowan chuckled, "but the spiders … Oh, the spiders are all theirs I think they’ve been waiting a while for it, actually The Ironteeth witches, too Apparently, the Yellowlegs weren’t very kind to those trapped in their aniht The only signal she needed to give
For a people who had asked for only one thing when Aelin had begged theht, to join this last battle: to return ho
Her flame danced over the battlefield And the lost Fae of Terrasen, the fabled Wolf Tribe who had welcoh the portals Right into Morath’s unsuspecting ranks
Maeve had gone deathly pale Paled further as ed and those spider-hybrids went down, their shrieks of surprise silenced under Asterion blades
Yet Rowan’s hand tightened on Aelin’s, and she peered up at her mate But his eyes were on Fenrys On the dark power Maeve still had wrapped around him
The male re His face a bloodied ruin
Through the roar of Rowan’s power, Aelin felt for the threads leading from her heart, her soul
Look at me Her silent command echoed down the blood oath--to Fenrys
Look at rand fashion," Maeve said to her and Rowan, that dark poelling "You, who I have wronged theblood, Fenrys looked, his eyes blindly turning toward hers And clearing--just slightly
Aelin blinked four times I am here, I a queen is?" Maeve asked the-lost Fae and wolf-riders charging onto the battlefield beyond them "I aht ic flowed around her in an unholy aura "You believe yourself to be a God-Killer, Aelin Galathynius? What were they but vain creatures locked into this world? What were they but things your huod"