Kingdom of Ash

She went still. “Who?”

Manon’s throat bobbed. “All.”

All of the Thirteen. All those fierce, brilliant witches. Gone.

“Live, Elide,” was all the witch said to her before striding out of the hall once more. “Live.”

. I wiped it away from existence. Yet he only remembered it once. Only once. The first time he beheld you.

came back,” she rasped

She passed through a world where a great city had been built along the curve of a river, the buildings impossibly tall and glimmering with lights.

world of snowcapped mountains under shining star

assed over one of those mountains, where a winged male stood beside a heavily pregnant female, gazing at those very stars. Fae

No, she had not ever really escaped at all, had she?

His mother had never forgotten him. Never stopped writing to him.
Chaol smiled slightly.
“Keep the letters,”

o, Dorian only draped an arm over her, and pulled her tightly against him.