harder to contain within a host.”
The white band of skin on his neck seemed
to burn, but he kept his stomach down: this
time. “Why did you leave your world?”
She blinked at him, as if surprised.
“What?” he asked.
She angled her head. “It has been a long,
long time since I conversed with someone
who knows me for what I am. And with
someone whose mind remained wholly their
own.”
“Even Aelin?”
A muscle in her slim jaw feathered. “Even
Aelin of the Wildfire. I could not infiltrate her
mind entirely, but little things ... those, I
could convince her to see.”
“Why did you capture and torture her?”
Such a simple way of describing what had
happened in Eyllwe and after it.
“Because she would never agree to work
lily
(lily)
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