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smithereens on the floor. Let him do it over
and over again.
She wouldn’t fight. Couldn’t bear to fight.
A door groaned open and closed. Stalking
footsteps neared.
Then a thump on the lid of the coffin.
“How does a few more days in there sound to
you?”
She wished she could fold herself into the
blackness around her.
Cairn told Fenrys to relieve himself and
return. Silence filled the room.
Then a thin scraping. Along the top of the
box. As if Cairn were running a dagger over it.
“I’ve been thinking how to repay you when
I let you out.”
Aelin blocked out his words. Did nothing
but gaze into the dark.
She was so tired. So, so tired.
For Terrasen, she had gladly done this. All