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“The Other chose such an undesirable Queen for a companion and yet Theran Grayhaven wants her to rule the rest of us?”

“In the Rose, Ranon has found a Queen for his people If the Other tries to take Dena Nehele, he will fight such a change”

“Will Jared Blaed?”

Another silence

Throughout the night they talked—and sometimes they cried At the first whisper of dawn, the Sapphire spells began to fade, so they vanished their stools, benches, and chairs They drew the power that had fueled the witchlight and the war spells back into themselves and prepared for the journey out of the mountains

As they s that had been said, and they all knew one thing: the Black Widows had been right Coinning—or face a terrible end

CHAPTER 29

KAELEER

“Gray?”

A war just above the knee

“What?” Gray opened his eyes They must have been closed because now he could see Dae in front of the chair he’d collapsed into when he walked into Daemon’s study

“Drink this,” Daemon said “It’s a wars”

“Where did the old bone go?”

A pause

Gray tried to focus on the blurryin front of hiainst the chair and stared at the ceiling It wasn’t doing anything He liked that A lot

He was so damn tired He had never ever, in the whole of his life, been this tired

How did these mendo this every day?

“Gray, did you remember any part of the Protocol that dealt with the First Escort arranging rest periods for the Queen and her escorts?”

“Huh?”

“Obviously not”

The dry hu

“How’s he doing?” Lucivar’s voice He sounded aood Jaenelle doesn’t have as y as she used to”

Gray had spent one whole elline He whiy