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I scowled up the stairs That is, if he bothered to show up on tiant arc acrossat me for the third time in less than a minute and demanded, "What?"
His lips twitched at the corners "You just look so …"
"Here we go," Mor ainst the stair banister Rings glinted at every knuckle, on every finger; stacks of bracelets tinkled against each other on either wrist
"Official," Cassian said with an incredulous look in her direction He waved a Siphon-topped hand to me "Fancy"
"Over five hundred years old," Mor said, shaking her head sadly, "a skilled warrior and general, fa ladies is still so you on diplos?"
Azriel, wreathed in shadows by the front door, chuckled quietly Cassian shot hi poetry, brother"
Azriel crossed his ar faintly "I don’t need to resort to it"
Mor let out a crow of laughter, and I snorted, earning a jab in the ribs from Cassian I batted his hand away, but refrained froive him, only because it was the first I’d seen of him since Adriata and shadows still di atop my head
The crown
Rhys had crownedbefore I was his h Lady Even Under the Mountain
I’d never questioned the tiaras and diadems and crowns that Nuala or Cerridove into s between us had been this way But this one … I peered up the stairs as Rhys’s strolling, unhurried footsteps thudded on the carpet
This croas heavier Not unwelcoe And as Rhys appeared at the top of the stairs, resplendent in that black jacket, his wings out and gleaain in that rooht, after I’d awoken hi in bed
It was contained a level above the library in the House of Wind, and warded with so h the, he added with a soft suests
The chamber was a cool, chill black--as if we’d stepped inside the leaht Of jewels
Ten thousand years’ worth of treasure
It was neatly organized, in podiums and open drawers and busts and racks
"The farin "Sohtet pissy and because we sometimes loan them to Mor’s family, but these … these are for the family"
He led me past displays that sparkled like small constellations, the worth of each … Even as a hter, I could not calculate the worth of any of it