calves, warning her to slow, to rest.
Then open air yawned again wide around
her, the water once more roaring.
Cairn halted, yanking her against his
towering body, his various weapons digging
into her chains, her skin. The other guards’
clothes rustled as they stopped, too. Fenrys’s
claws clicked on stone, the sound no doubt
meant to signal her that he remained nearby.
She realized why he’d feel the need to do
so as a female voice that was both young and
old, amused and soulless, purred, “Remove
the hood, Cairn.”
It vanished, and Aelin needed only a few
blinks to take everything in.
She had been here before.
Had been on this broad veranda
overlooking a mighty river and waterfalls, had
walked through the ancient stone city she
knew loomed at her back.
lily
(lily)
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