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For her
Rowan twined his fingers in hers and whispered, awe in every word,
“For you, Fireheart. All of it is for you.”
Aelin wept then. Wept in joy that lit her heart, brighter than any magic
could ever be.
For across every mountain, spread beneath the green canopy of
Oakwald, carpeting the entire Plain of Theralis, the kingsflame was
blooming.
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Long Live the Queen
Not an official throne—just a larger, finer chair that had been selected
from the sad lot of candidates.
Darrow, too, stared toward the open doors, face impassive. Yet his
eyes glowed.
The trumpets rang out.
A four-note summons. Repeated three times.
Pews groaned as everyone twisted to the doors.
Behind the dais, hidden beyond a painted wooden screen, a small
group of musicians began playing a processional. Not the grand,
sprawling orchestra that might accompany an event of this magnitude,
but better than nothing.
It didn’t matter anyway.
Not as Elide appeared in a lilac gown, a garland of ribbons atop her
braided black hair. Every step limped, and Rowan knew it was because
she had asked Lorcan not to brace her foot. She’d wanted to make this
walk down the long aisle on her own two feet.
Poised and graceful, the Lady of Perranth kept her shoulders thrown
back as she clutched the bouquet of holly before her and walked to the
dais. Lady of Perranth—and one of Aelin’s handmaidens. For today.
For Aelin’s coronation.
Elide was halfway down the aisle when Lysandra appeared, clad in
green velvet. People murmured. Not just at the remarkable beauty, but
what she was.
The shape-shifter who had defended their kingdom. Had helped take
down Erawan.
Lysandra’s chin remained high as she glided down the aisle, and
Aedion’s own head lifted at the sight of her. The Lady of Caraverre.
Then came Evangeline, green ribbons in her red-gold hair, beaming,
those scars stretched wide in utter joy. The young Lady of Arran.
Darrow’s ward. Who had somehow melted the lord’s heart enough for
They are there
I am here, I am with you.
A queen had said that to him. In their secret, silent language. During
the unspeakable hours of torment, they had said that to each other.
Not alone.
He had not been alone then, and neither had she.
The veranda in Doranelle and bloodied snows outside Orynth blended
and flashed.
I am here, I am with you.
Maeve stood there. Before Aelin and Rowan, burning with power.
Before Lorcan, his dark gifts a shadow around him. Fae—so many Fae
and wolves, some riding them—pouring on to the battlefield through
holes in the air.
It had worked, then. Their mad plan, to be enacted when all went to
hell, when they had nothing left.
Yet Maeve’s power swelled.
Aelin’s eyes remained upon him, anchoring him. Pulling him from
that bloodied veranda. To a body trembling in pain. A face that burned
and throbbed.
I am here, I am with you.
And Fenrys found himself blinking back. Just once.
Yes.
And when Aelin’s eyes moved again, he understood.
Aelin looked to Rowan. Found her mate already smiling at her. Aware of
what likely awaited them. “Together,” she said quietly. Rowan’s thumb
brushed against hers. In love and farewell.
And then they erupted.
Flame, white-hot and blinding, roared toward Maeve.
But the dark queen had been waiting. Twin waves of darkness arched
and cascaded for them.
Only to be halted by a shield of black wind. Beaten aside.
Her name was Aelin Ashryver Whitethorn Galathynius.
And she would not be afraid.
The queen
But Evangeline pointed a finger. Out toward the gates, toward Maeve
and Erawan. “Look.”
And there she was.
In the deepening blues of descending night, amid the snow beginning
to fall, Aelin Galathynius had appeared before the sealed southern gate.
Had appeared before Erawan and Maeve.
Her unbound hair billowed in the wind like a golden banner, a last ray
of light with the dying of the day.
Silence fell. Even the screaming stopped as all turned toward the gate.
But Aelin did not balk. Did not run from the Valg queen and king who
halted as if in delight at the lone figure who dared face them.
Lysandra let out a strangled sob. “She—she has no magic left.” The
shifter’s voice broke. “She has nothing left.”
Still Aelin lifted her sword.
Flames ran down the blade.
One flame against the darkness gathered.
One flame to light the night.
Aelin raised her shield, and flames encircled it, too.
Burning bright, burning undaunted. A vision of old, reborn once
more.
The cry went down the castle battlements, through the city, along the
walls.
The queen had come home at last.
The queen had come to hold the gate.