Kingdom of Ash

into that spider’s smile. The smile of the horrendous creatures that launched themselves at Orynth. A ...

CHAPTER 112 Atop the highest tower of the castle of Orynth, on the broad balcony that overlooked the w ...

limbs. He smiled at the young healer whose hands glowed with pure light, as if already tasting her blood. S ...

to put the keys back into the gate. What happened to that glorious vision you once show ...

What a disappointment that deep down, you wished to be so ordinary.” The shield had become unbearably heavy ...

steady. But she felt it. The familiar, unending pain. The shadows that could devour. Pressing closer. Eating aw ...

great duel I was promised.” As if Maeve opened the lid to a chest on her power, plumes of darkness erupte ...

and blood, this was real. “Wake up, Aelin,” Maeve whispered. Aelin blinked. And found herself in the ir ...

away.” They hadn’t yet begun. To tear her apart. All of it a dream. One long nightmare. The keys remained ...

of the weight of your crown, your power, will consume you. Embitter you until you do not recognize your ...

would do, would be enough. Even if she saved Terrasen, saved Erilea, she’d still need to give more, do ...

I name you Elentiya, “Spirit That Could Not Be Broken.” Aelin traced her metal-encrusted fingers ...

would do it. Every brutal hour and bit of agony. And it would hurt, and she would scream, but she’d ...

The open door and roar of the river beyond. She made herself look. To face down that place of pain ...

way.” “How,” Maeve asked again. “How did you not break?” “Because I am not afraid,” Aelin said. “Your ...

Aelin answered the queen’s smile with one of her own. “Did you forget what I told you on that beach ...

down swinging for this. Maeve met her each blow, and they burned and raged through the room. The altar crack ...

Darkness fanned through the room, blocking the rain of fiery arrows that shot for Maeve, and the q ...

through Elide’s body, and her friend disappeared. An illusion. She had fallen for an illusion, and had left ...

Galathynius.” Plumes of shadow shot for her, snapping and tearing, and no flame, no amount of sheer will co ...