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"Aelin took a step forward. One step, as if in a daze. She loosed a shuddering breath, and a small, whimpering noise came out of her - a sob. And then she was sprinting down the alley, flying as though the winds themselves pushed at her heels. She flung herself on the male, crashing into him hard enough that anyone else might have gone rocking back into the stone wall. But the male grabbed her to him, his massive arms wrapping around her tightly and lifting her up. Nesryn made to approach, but Aedion stopped her with a hand on her arm. Aelin was laughing as she cried, and the male was just holding her, his hooded head buried in her neck. As if he were breathing her in. "Who is that?" Nesryn asked. Aedion smiled. "Rowan."
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rowan-whitethorn
throne-of-glass
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Ten years of shadows, but no longer. Light up the darkness, Majesty.
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court
darkness
fae
light-up
majesty
queen-of-terrasen
shadows
terrasen
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And at long last, Aelin Ashryver Galathynius was home.
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terrasen
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My name is Aelin Ashryver Galathynius. And I am the Queen of Terrasen.
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queen
queen-of-terrasen
rifthold
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Sarah J. Maas |
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You survived; I survived. We're together again. I once begged the gods to let me see you -- if only for a moment. To see you and know you'd made it. Just once; that was all I ever hoped for.
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queen-of-shadows
reunion
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"Are you ashamed of what I've done?" she dared to ask. His brow creased. "Why would you ever think that?" She couldn't quite look him in the eye as she ran a finger down the blanket. "Are you?" Aedion was silent long enough that she lifted her head - but found him gazing toward the door, as though he could see through it, across the city, to the captain. When he turned to her, his handsome face was open - soft in a way she doubted many ever saw. "Never," he said. "I could never be ashamed of you."
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friendship
love
queen-of-shadows
throne-of-glass
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Sarah J. Maas |
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A smile tugged at her lips, and her eyes - their eyes - sparkled. 'Hello, Aedion.
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queen-of-shadows
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The two princes stared at each other, one gold and one silver, one her twin and one her soul-bonded. There was nothing friendly in the stares, nothing human - two Fae males locked in some unspoken dominance battle.
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pissing-contest
rowan-whitethorn
testosterone-civil-war
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Sarah J. Maas |
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Fireheart, her mother had called her. Not for her power. The name had never once been about her power.
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aelin-ashryver-galathynius
fae
fire
fireheart
heart
kingdom-of-ash
strenght
throne-of-glass
tog
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Sarah J. Maas |
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He stared at her; she stared right back. Unyielding, unbreakable. They'd been cut from the same cloth. Aedion loosed a breath and looked at their joined hands - then opened his to examine her scarred palm, crisscrossed with the marks of her vow to Nehemia and the cut she'd made the moment she and Rowan became carranam, their magic joining them in an eternal bond. 'It's hard not to think all of your scars are my fault.' Oh. Oh.
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queen-of-shadows
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I knew another women who lost as much as you. And do you know what she did with it-the loss?' He could barely stop the words from pouring out, could barely think over the roaring in this head. 'She hunted down the people responsible for it and obliterated them.
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aelin-galathynius
chaol
chaol-westfall
throne-of-glass
throne-of-glass-series
tower-of-dawn
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Sarah J. Maas |
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They'd been forged of the same ore, two sides of the same golden, scarred coin. She'd know it when she spied him atop the execution plataform. She couldn't explain it. No one could understand that instant bond, that soul-deep assurance and rightness, unless they, too, had experienced it. But she owned no explanations to anyone - not about Aedion.
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bond
family
love
the-ashryver-cousins
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Sarah J. Maas |
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Ten years of shadows, but no longer. Light up the darkness, Magesty.
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darkness
light
the-ashryver-cousins
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Sarah J. Maas |
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Having Aelin help him the first time had been awkward enough that he couldn't even go until she started singing a bawdy tune at the top of her lungs and turned on the sink faucet, all the while helping him stand over the toilet.
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family
the-ashryver-cousins
two-side-of-the-same-coin
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Sarah J. Maas |
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"Lysandra's smile grew. "I like your fangs," she said sweetly. Aelin choked on her grape. Of course Lysandra did. Rowan gave a little grin that usually sent Aelin running. "Are you studying them so you can replicate them when you take my form, shape-shifter?" Aelin's fork froze in midair. "Bullshit," Aedion said."
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aelin-ashryver-galathynius
lysandra
rowan-whitethorn
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Sarah J. Maas |
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That sounds a lot like, ' I have more secrets that I'm going to spring on you whenever I feel like stopping your heart dead in your chest.
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aelin-ashryver-galathynius
secrets
the-ashryver-cousins
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Sarah J. Maas |
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Aedion - every breath she took seemed to echo his name. Aedion, Aedion, Aedion.
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aelin-ashryver-galathynius
cousins
queen-of-shadows
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Sarah J. Maas |
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"Your fussy nursemaid of a wyvern is fine, by the way. I don't know how you wound up with a sweet thing like that for a mount, but he's content to sprawl in the sun on the foredeck. Can't say it makes the sailors particularly happy - especially cleaning up after him." Find somewhere safe, she'd told Abraxos. Had he somehow found the queen? Somehow known this was the only place she might stand a chance of surviving?"
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manon-blackbeak
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Sarah J. Maas |
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"Aelin's hand wavered slightly over his wound. "What's your shield made of, then?" Fenrys tried and failed to shrug. But Gavriel muttered from where he worked on the still-whimpering pirate, "Arrogance." Aelin snorted, but didn't dare take her eyes off Fenrys's injury as she said, "So you do have sense of humor, Gavriel." The Lion of Doranelle gave a wary smile over his shoulder. The rare-sighted, restrained twin to Aedion's own flashing grins. Aelin had called him Uncle Kitty-Cat all of one time before Aedion had snarled viciously enough to make her think carefully before using the term again. Gavriel, to his credit, had merely given Aelin a long-suffereing sigh that seemed to be used only when she or Fenrys were around. "That sense of humor only appears about once every century," Fenrys rasped, "so you'd better hope you Settle, or else that's the last time you'll see it."
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aelin-ashryver-galathynius
fenrys
gavriel
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Sarah J. Maas |
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"Aedion rubbed at his face. "Do you understand what it was like to sit on my ass while you were gone? You said two hours. What was I supposed to think?" "Aedion," she said as calmly as she could, and pulled off her filthy gloves before taking his broad, callused hand. "I get it. I do."
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