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“She left?” Aelin blurted. “She—she just
left her own world? Permanently?”
“It had never been her world, not really.
She had been born to rule others.”
“Where did she go?”
That smile grew a bit. “To a fair, lovely
world. Where there was no war, no darkness.
Not like that in which she had been born. She
was made a queen there, too. Was able to hide
herself within a new body so that none could
know what she was beneath, so that even her
own husband would not recognize her.”
“Did he ever find her again?”
“No, though he looked. Found out all she’d
learned, and taught it to himself and his
brothers. They tore apart world after world to
find her. And when they arrived at the world
where she had made her new home, they did
not know her. Even as they went to war, she
did not reveal herself. She won, and two of the