promised you we’d find a way to pay this debt
—together.”
Aelin surveyed the scattered books.
Nothing—the books, that scrap of hope they’d
offered had amounted to nothing. “There isn’t
an alternative.” She dragged her hands
through her hair. “I don’t have an alternative,”
she amended. No card up her sleeve, no grand
reveal. Not for this.
“We don’t do it tomorrow, then,” he
pushed. “We wait. Tell the others we want to
reach Orynth first. Maybe the Royal Library
has some texts—”
“What is the point in a vote if we ignore its
outcome? They decided, Rowan. Tomorrow, it
will be over.”
The words rang hollow and sickly within
her.
“Let me find another way.” His voice
broke, but his pacing didn’t falter. “I will find
lily
(lily)
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