The khagan’s armies had crossed every
terrain, though. Mountains and deserts and
seas. They did not balk now.
So Aelin supposed she would not, either.
For whatever time she had left, until it was
over.
This final push north, homeward ... She
smiled grimly at the looming mountains, at
the army stretching away behind them.
And just because she could, just because
they were headed to Terrasen at last, Aelin
unleashed a flicker of her power. Some of the
standard-bearers behind them murmured in
surprise, but Rowan only smiled. Smiled with
that fierce hope, that brutal determination that
flared in her own heart, as she began to burn.
She let the flame encompass her, a golden
glow that she knew could be spied even from
the farthest lines of the army, from the city
and keep they left behind.
lily
(lily)
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