CHAPTER 121

Rowan knew this day would be hard for her.
For all of them, who had become so close
these weeks and months.
Yet a week after Aelin’s coronation, they
gathered again. This time not to celebrate, but
to say farewell.
The day had dawned, clear and sunny, yet
still brutally cold. As it would be for a time.
Aelin had asked them all to stay last night.
To wait out the winter months and depart in
the spring. Rowan knew she’d been aware her
request was unlikely to be granted.
Some had seemed inclined to think it over,