Chapter 42
CHAPTER 42 Lorcan was given the last watch of the night, which allowed him to witness the sunrise over the now-distant horizon. Would he ever see it again—Wendlyn, Doranelle, any of that eastern land? Perhaps not, considering what they sailed to in the west, and the immortal army Maeve had no doubt set on their […]
Chapter 41
CHAPTER 41 They reached the sea under cover of darkness, warned of its arrival by the briny scent that crept into the cave, then the rougher waters that pushed past, and then finally the roar of the surf. Maeve’s eyes might have been everywhere, but they weren’t fixed on the cave mouth that opened onto […]
Chapter 40
CHAPTER 40 Manon and the Thirteen had buried each and every one of the soldiers massacred by the Ironteeth. Their torn and bleeding hands throbbed, their backs ached, but they’d done it. When the last of the hard earth had been patted down, she’d found Bronwen lingering at the clearing edge, the rest of the […]
Chapter 39
CHAPTER 39 The enemy’s army arrived not in three days, or four, but five. A blessing and a curse, Nesryn decided. A blessing, for the time it granted them to prepare, for the ruks to carry some of the most vulnerable of Anielle’s people to a snow- blasted camp beyond the Fangs. And a curse […]
Chapter 38
CHAPTER 38 The queen and her consort needed a private moment, it seemed. Elide had been more surprised to see Fenrys in his beautiful male form than the gold that he and Gavriel bore, near-spilling out their pockets. Lorcan laughed softly as they packed the treasure into their bags. More than some people could dream […]
Chapter 37
CHAPTER 37 Days of near-silent travel passed. Three days, if whatever senses Rowan and Gavriel possessed proved true. Perhaps the latter carried a pocket watch. Aelin didn’t particularly care. She used each of those days to consider what had been done, what lay before her. Sometimes, the roar of her magic drowned out her thoughts. […]
Chapter 36
CHAPTER 36 “How long will it take to reach the coast?” Elide’s whisper echoed off the river-carved cavern walls. She’d panicked when the boat had ventured beyond the glow of the shore and into a passageway across the lake, so dark she couldn’t see her own hands before her face. To be trapped in such […]
Chapter 35
CHAPTER 35 She had not trusted this world, this dream. The companions who had walked with her, led her here. The warrior-prince with pine-green eyes and who smelled of Terrasen. Him, she had not dared to believe at all. Not the words he spoke, but the mere fact that he was there. She did not […]
Chapter 34
CHAPTER 34 “We need to retreat,” Galan Ashryver panted to Aedion as they stood by the water tent deep in their army’s ranks, the Crown Prince splattered with blood both red and black. Three days of fighting in the frigid wind and snow, three days of being pushed northward mile by mile. Aedion had the […]
Chapter no 38
Reshmina picked up another rock and tossed it off the pile that used to be her home. The sun had almost set on September 11, 2019, and she and Baba were still digging through the rubble, trying to find anything of value. Anything that could help them survive. The digging was slow and hard, and […]