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weapons. Steel was of little use against the
wights. Only magic might destroy them.
Why Aelin had needed to stop, what she’d
needed to see, he could only guess as the
passage opened into a small cavern, and gold
gleamed.
Gold all around—and a shadow clothed in
tattered black robes lurking by the
sarcophagus in the center.
Rowan snarled in warning but Aelin didn’t
strike.
Her hand curled at her side, but she
remained still. The wight hissed. Aelin just
watched it.
As if she wouldn’t, couldn’t, touch her
power.
Rowan’s chest strained. Then he sent a
whip of ice and wind through the cave.
The wight shrieked once, and was gone.
Aelin stared at where it had been for a