A Better World
A Better World Brutal winter gave way to soft spring. Throughout the endless, snowy months, they had worked. On rebuilding Orynth, on all those trade agreements, on making ties with kingdoms no one had contacted in a hundred years. The lost Fae of Terrasen had returned, many of the wolf-riders with them, and immediately launched […]
Chapter 121
CHAPTER 121 Rowan knew this day would be hard for her. For all of them, who had become so close these weeks and months. Yet a week after Aelin’s coronation, they gathered again. This time not to celebrate, but to say farewell. The day had dawned, clear and sunny, yet still brutally cold. As it […]
Chapter 120
CHAPTER 120 Two days later, Nesryn Faliq was still recovering from the ball that had lasted until dawn. But what a celebration it had been. Nothing as majestic as anything in the southern continent, but the sheer joy and laughter in the Great Hall, the feasting and dancing … She would never forget it, as […]
Chapter 119
CHAPTER 119 It took ten days for everything to be arranged. Ten days to clear out the throne room, to scrub the lower halls, to find the food and cooks they needed. Ten days to clean the royal suite, to find proper clothing, and outfit the throne room in queenly splendor. Evergreen garlands hung from […]
Chapter 118
CHAPTER 118 Yrene slumped onto the three-legged stool amid the chaos of the Great Hall. The story was familiar, though the setting slightly altered: another mighty chamber turned into a temporary sick bay. Dawn was not far off, yet she and the other healers kept working. Those bleeding out wouldn’t be able to survive without […]
Chapter 117
CHAPTER 117 Aedion had fought until the enemy soldier before him had slumped to his knees as if dead. But the man, a black ring on his finger, was not dead at all. Only the demon inside him. And when soldiers of countless nations began to cheer, when word spread that a Torre Cesme healer […]
Chapter 116
CHAPTER 116 Chaol awoke to warm, delicate hands stroking over his brow, his jaw. He knew that touch. Would know it if he were blind. One moment, he’d been fighting his way down the battlements. The next—oblivion. As if whatever surge of power had gone through Yrene had not only weakened his spine, but his […]
Chapter 115
CHAPTER 115 Maeve’s dark blood leaked onto the snow as she fell to her knees, fingers scrabbling at the burning sword stuck through her chest. Fenrys stepped around her, leaving the sword where he’d impaled her as he walked to Aelin’s side. Embers swirling around her and Rowan, Aelin approached the queen. Baring her teeth, […]
Chapter 114
CHAPTER 114 She was dead. Aelin was dead. Her lifeless body had been spiked to the gates of Orynth, her hair shorn to her scalp. Rowan knelt before the gates, the armies of Morath streaming past him. It wasn’t real. Couldn’t be. Yet the sun warmed his face. The reek of death filled his nose. […]
Chapter 113
CHAPTER 113 Erawan panted as he approached. “Healer,” he breathed, his unholy power emanating from him like a black aura. She backed away a step, closer to the balcony rail. The dark king followed her, a predator closing in on long-awaited prey. “Do you know how long I have looked for you?” The wind tossed […]