CHAPTER 12

Everything. She had given everything for this,
and had been glad to do it.
Aelin lay in darkness, the slab of iron like a
starless night overhead.
She’d awoken in here. Had been in here for
... a long time.
Long enough she’d relieved herself. Hadn’t
cared.
Perhaps it had all been for nothing. The
Queen Who Was Promised.
Promised to die, to surrender herself to
fulfill an ancient princess’s debt. To save this
world.