Kingdom of Ash

Aelin answered the queen’s smile with one
of her own. “Did you forget what I told you on
that beach in Eyllwe?”
When Maeve merely blinked at her again,
Aelin attacked.
Blasting with a shield of fire, she drove
Maeve to the side—and launched a spear of
blue flame.
Maeve dodged the assault with a wall of
dark power, but Aelin went on the offensive,
striking again and again and again. Those
words she’d snarled to Maeve in Eyllwe rang
between them: I will kill you.
And she would. For what Maeve had done,
to her, to Rowan and Lyria, to Fenrys and
Connall and so many others, she’d wipe her
from memory.
Half a thought and Goldryn was again in
her hand, the blade singing with flame.
Even if it took her last breaths, she’d go