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to their power.”
“But you’d risk the border towns?” Darrow
challenged.
“I plan to find a way to take out the towers
before they can pass the foothills,” she
drawled. She prayed Aedion had a plan.
“With the fire that you’ve so magnificently
displayed,” Darrow said with equal
smoothness.
Ansel of Briarcliff answered before
Lysandra could come up with a suitably
arrogant lie. “Erawan likes to play his little
mind games, to drum up fear. Let him wonder
and worry why Aelin hasn’t wielded hers yet.
Contemplate if she’s storing it up for
something grand.” A roguish wink at her. “I
do hope it will be horrific.”
Lysandra gave the queen a slash of a smile.
“Oh, it will be.”
She felt Aedion’s stare, the well-hidden