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He exhaled a long breath “Then I’rateful for uarantee My own If Morgana drained the powers from the vault, she will have kept the choice ones She was already a force in the Lore before, so I can only iana had been io was so colossal, it outstripped even Sabine’s And now that Morgana’s adversary Dorada had risen, who kne the queen would react about anything?
“I can extend an olive branch,” Lanthe said, “letting her know that Skye Hall is under new ement, and that fifty percent of the royals here are Sorceri But I make no promises She’s about as predictable as Emberine Thronos, she could strike down everyone here with a snap of her fingers”
“Assu she can find us”
“If the va Morgana how to do the saree since he gave her the fire scythe Morgana won’t stop until the va”
“Will she be so bent on reaching us?”
“I don’t mean to heap bad news upon bad news, but Bettina is her ward One of the few people in existence that Morgana cares about Now that Bettina’s married a Dacian royal vaeted a worse victim” Aristo had screwed up, well, royally
“What about your presence here? Will that not influence your queen?”
“I’m sure she thinks I’ve been abducted and brainwashed Even if I convinced her I’ her ana wouldn’t forgo any of her plans for Sabine—and definitely not for me”
“Perhaps if I ana’s hostility?”
Lanthe shook her head “It infuriates Morgana that this place is hidden, that she’s been unable to retaliate for all the harm done to her subjects She’d love to strip the wards here coine if she enlisted Portia and Emberine These islands arelike bu the firepower—literally—of dozens of fire deht to escape to the air”
With Lanthe’s every word, Thronos grew arcoat the problenitude of it
“There are other Sorceri with powers just as catastrophic,” she said “Morgana doesn’t even have to get then on—she can simply control them That’s her sorceress power: the ability to control others’ powers”
“If they attacked in that manner, humans would be able to detect us,” he pointed out
“Soest?”
“The sorceress in et scarce really quickly”
“I don’t understand,” he said, the idea of fleeing con to a warrior like him
“Do you have an evacuation plan in effect? Everybody, even the strongest species, needs a contingency, a plan B, a rabbit hole” A harsh reality she’d learned by running from Vrekeners Fate is weird “Is there soo?”
“When the Territories reside over Canada, there’s a re bank cloaks the tops of the trees, so some have built cabins in the mist It’s an outpost of sorts”
“Perfect Maybe we could head that way? Oh, and can you and your guys devise a security alar system that would encompass all the islands?”
“I can see”
“Okay” She stood, cracking her knuckles “We’ve got shit to do I need pen and paper”
“Parch to say that?”
FIFTY-ONE
SPLAT
“Ugh!” Another inkblot on an official Vrekener queen docuers She looked like she’d been finger painting
Occupational hazard, she supposed, now that she was pretty much the royal letter writer For the last five days, her quill (because of course it was a quill) had been her sword
Lanthe wasn’t saying she’d dothat either
Her first letter had been to Sabine In it, she’d vowed to gold that things ell and that she was happy to have wed Thronos She’d written that she was now a queen and included a plea to get Morgana to enter into talks with her
Lanthe had known there was a risk in sounding like she adored it up here—everyone would think she’d been brainwashed—so she’d tried to sound as much like herself as possible
She’d had that letter delivered i all the factions who’d declared war on them
To Carrow, she’d explained that Thronos had turned out to be a wonderful surprise
Kind of like Malkom Slaine turned out for you, if I’m not mistaken? Do you remember how everyone in the prison cell disbelieved you’d wed hih no one will believe I willingly s, Crow: Say hi to Ruby, and please get the witches to back off
To Bettina, she’d written:
The old Vrekener king was a vicious fiend who got what he deserved Kudos to your new vamp husband for a well-played assassination and tournament victory