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they’d find Cairn, at least. And get some
answers then. Give him a taste of what he’d
done—
Rowan shut out the thought. He didn’t let
himself think of what had been done to her.
He’d do that tomorrow, when he saw Cairn.
When he repaid him for every moment of
pain.
Overhead, the stars shone clear and bright,
and though Mala had only once appeared to
him at dawn, on the foothills across this very
city, though she might be little more than a
strange, mighty being from another world, he
offered up a prayer anyway.
Then, he had begged Mala to protect Aelin
from Maeve when they entered Doranelle, to
give her strength and guidance, and to let her
walk out alive. Then, he had begged Mala to
let him remain with Aelin, the woman he
loved. The goddess had been little more than a