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Before Aelin could inhale a bracing breath,
hands slammed onto her shoulders. Pushed
down.
She couldn’t stop her scream then.
Not as he shoved her into a burning pit of
agony that raced up her legs, her spine.
Oh gods—oh gods—
From far away, Fenrys’s snarl sliced
through her screaming, followed by Maeve’s
lilting, “Very well, Cairn.”
The pressure on her shoulders lightened.
Aelin bowed over her knees. A full breath
—she needed to get a full breath down.
She couldn’t. Her lungs, her chest, only
heaved in shallow, rasping pants.
Her vision blurred, swimming, the blood
that had spread beyond her knees rippling
with it.
Endure; outlast—
“My eyes told me an interesting tidbit of