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find her, Orcus’s missing wife, and only
halted here because the Fae had risen to
challenge them. Fae led by Maeve, whom the
Valg kings did not know or recognize, in the
form she had taken.
The life she had crafted for herself. The
minds of all the Fae who had existed that she
had ripped into, convincing them that there
had been three queens, not two. Including the
minds of Mab and Mora, the two sister-queens
who had ruled Doranelle. Including Brannon
himself.
“The spiders claimed,” Nesryn went on,
“that even Brannon didn’t know. Even now, in
the Afterworld, he doesn’t know. That was
how deep Maeve’s powers went into his mind,
into all their minds. She made herself their
true queen.”
The words, the truth, pelted Aelin, one
after another.