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i didn't have it in myself to go with grace, & so the battleships will sink beneath the waves.
lucy hale
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50 DAYS OF TOG → 4/5 Reveals: Maeve as Valg Queen
Three queens - for the three kings that might one day come. When they returned to their palace, she tore into the minds of all those who dwelled there, too. And any who came. Planting the thought that a third queen had always existed, always ruled.
“In Adarlan?”
“In anywhere,” she said. “But yes- in Adarlan, in Fenharrow. I heard Eyllwe’s cities were once as fine as this, before...”
Before the shadow between them. Before the shadow in his heart.
“They were,” Chaol said, sealing away the thought of the princess who’d lived in those cities, who’d loved them. Even as the scar on his face seemed to twinge. But he considered her question. And from those shadows of his memory, he heard Aedion Ashryver’s voice.
What do you suppose the people on other continents, across all those seas, think of us? Do you think they hate us or pity us for what we do to each other? Perhaps it’s just as bad there. Perhaps it’s worse. But... I have to believe it’s better. Somewhere, it’s better than this.
“He realized he hadn’t finished. That Yrene was still waiting, as she brushed a side a trailing vine of small purple flowers. “Yes,” he said at least, at the wariness hiding that tiny burning kernel of hope in her eyes. “I believe we can build this for ourselves one day.” He added, “If we survive this war.”
Yrene Towers Westfall → Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
A Favor, Yrene had asked.
Anything, the khagan had promised.
Save my people
The thing he had not seen coming. The person he had not expected to find. Here in the darkness... here she was.
He’d almost told the princess that she could keep Hellas’s Horse, but there was something to be said about the prospect of charging down Morath foot soldiers atop a horse named Butterfly.