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daughter. You were born of two mighty
bloodlines. That strength flows through you.
Lives in you.
Evalin’s face blazed with the fierceness of
the women who had come before them, all the
way back to the Faerie Queen whose eyes they
both bore.
You do not yield.
Then she was gone, like dew under the
morning sun.
But the words lingered.
Blossomed within Aelin, bright as a
kindled ember.
You do not yield.
Cairn scraped his dagger over the metal,
right above her head. “When I cut you up this
time, bitch, I’m going to—”
Aelin slammed her hand into the lid.
Cairn paused.
Aelin pounded her fist into the iron again.