CHAPTER 31

They had taken her scars.
Maeve had taken them all away.
It told Rowan enough about what had been
done. When he’d seen her back, the smooth
skin where the scars of Endovier and the scars
from Cairn’s whipping should have been, he’d
suspected.
But kneeling, burning in nothing but her
skin ... There were no scars where there
should have been. The almost-necklace of
them from Baba Yellowlegs: gone. The
shackle marks from Endovier: gone. The scar
where she’d been forced by Arobynn Hamel to