Chapter 102
CHAPTER 102 They had cleared a small chamber near the Great Hall for his viewing. The room lit by whatever candles could be spared, the ancient stones were cast in flickering relief around the table where they’d laid him. Lysandra lingered in the doorway as she gazed toward the sheet-draped body at the back of […]
Chapter 101
CHAPTER 101 Human no more. Aelin’s breath rasped in her ears—her permanently arched, immortal ears—with each step back toward the camped army. Rowan remained at her side, a hand around her waist. He hadn’t let go of her once. Not once, since she’d come back. Since she’d walked through worlds. She could see them still. […]
Chapter 100
CHAPTER 100 A prodding kick from Kyllian had Aedion awake before dawn. He groaned as he stretched out on the cot in the Great Hall, the space still dim. Countless other soldiers slumbered around him, their heavy breathing filling the room. He squinted at the small lantern that Kyllian held above him. “It’s time,” Kyllian […]
Chapter 99
CHAPTER 99 She was falling. Falling and being thrown. The Wyrdgate sealed behind her, and yet she was not home. As it closed, all worlds overlapped. And she now fell through them. One after another after another. Worlds of water, worlds of ice, worlds of darkness. She slammed through them, faster than a shooting star, […]
Chapter 98
CHAPTER 98 It was breaking apart. The mating bond. Bowed over his knees, Rowan panted, a hand on his chest as the bond frayed. He clung to it, wrapped his magic, his soul around it, as if it might keep her, wherever she was, from going to a place he could not follow. He did […]
Chapter 97
CHAPTER 97 She could barely move. Barely think. Gone. Where light and life had flowed within her, there was nothing. Not an ember. Only a droplet, just one, of water. She clung to it, shielded it as they appeared, twelve figures through the portal behind her. Filtering into this place of places, this crossroads of […]
Chapter 96
CHAPTER 96 Rowan had not moved for the hours they’d stood beside Aelin and Dorian and watched them stare at nothing. Chaol had not so much as shifted, either. The night passed, the stars wheeling over this hateful, cold place. And then Dorian arched, gulping down air —and collapsed to his knees. Aelin remained where […]
Chapter 95
CHAPTER 95 His father stood there. The man he had last seen on a bridge in a glass castle, and yet not. There was kindness on his face. Humanity. And sorrow. Such terrible, pained sorrow. Dorian’s magic faltered. Even Aelin’s magic slowed in surprise, the torrent thinning to a trickle, a steady and agonizing drain. […]
Chapter 94
CHAPTER 94 As it had been once before, so it was again. The beginning and end and eternity, a torrent of light, of life that flowed between them, two halves of a cleaved bloodline. Mist swirled, veiling the solid ground beneath. An illusion, perhaps—for their minds to bear where they now stood. A place that […]
Chapter 93
CHAPTER 93 The four of them strode in silence through the trees. Down the ancient road to the salt mines. It was the only place the scouts weren’t watching. Every step closer made her queasy, a slow sweat breaking down her spine. Rowan kept his hand gripped around hers, his thumb brushing over her skin. […]