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pushed. As if she’d forgotten to douse a flame
left burning in her room. “And did the queen
find the keys?”
Maeve’s smile turned sad. “Do you think
she did, Aelin?”
Aelin considered. So many of their chats,
their lessons in this glen, held deeper puzzles,
questions for her to work through, to help her
when she one day took her throne, Rowan at
her side.
As if she’d summoned him, the pine-and-
snow scent of her mate filled the clearing. A
rustle of wings, and there he was, perched in
hawk form on one of the towering oaks. Her
warrior-prince.
She smiled toward him, as she had for
weeks now, when he’d come to escort her
back to her rooms in the river palace. It was
during those walks from forest to mist-
shrouded city that she had come to know him,

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