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A place she might never escape, not really.
Her power stirred, awakening. Aelin
swallowed, refusing to acknowledge it. Heed
it.
She wouldn’t. Couldn’t. Not yet. Until she
was ready.
She had seen Rowan’s face when she spoke
of what his deception with the collar had
prompted her to do. Had noted the way her
companions looked at her, pity and fear in
their eyes. At what had been done to her, what
she’d become.
A new body. A foreign, strange body, as if
she’d been ripped from one and shoved into
another. Different from moving between her
forms, somehow. She hadn’t tried shifting
into her human body yet. Didn’t see the point.
Sitting in silence as the boat was pulled
through the gloom, she felt the weight of
those stares. Their dread. Felt them wondering