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was bullshit.”
She said nothing, and couldn’t stop her
shoulders from curving inward.
“Your plan was bullshit,” he breathed, his
eyes sparking. “How could you ever be her,
wear her skin, and think to get away with it?
How could you ever think you’d get around
the fact that our armies are counting on you to
burn the enemy to ashes, and all you can do is
run away and emerge as some beast instead?”
“You don’t get to pin this retreat on me,”
she rasped. The first words she’d spoken in
days and days.
“You agreed to let Aelin go to her death,
and leave us here to be slashed to bloody
ribbons. You two told no one of this plan, told
none of us who might have explained the
realities of this war, and that we would need a
gods-damned Fire-Bringer and not an
untrained, useless shape-shifter against