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Aelin had to swallow before she could
answer. “She showed me what might have
been—if there had been no Erawan, if Elena
had dealt with him properly and banished him.
If there had been no Lyria, none of that pain
or despair you endured. She showed me
Terrasen as it would have been today, with my
father as king, and my childhood happy, and
...” Her lips wobbled. “When I turned twenty,
you came with a delegation of Fae to
Terrasen, to make amends for the rift between
my mother and Maeve. And you and I took
one look at each other in my father’s throne
room, and we knew.”
She didn’t fight the stinging in her eyes. “I
wanted to believe that was the true world.
That this was the nightmare from which I’d
awaken. I wanted to believe that there was a
place where you and I had never known this
suffering and loss, where we’d take one look