Friendly Reminder that Aelin had promised Darrow that she’d “raise an army of of assassins and thieves and exiles and commoners.”
Friendly Reminder that Aelin had fulfilled her promise to Darrow. That she had called in “old debts and promises” and “raised an army not just to challenge Morath…but to rattle the stars.”
Friendly Reminder that “every step she’d taken, every plan and calculation, every secret and desperate gamble…[was] For Terrasen. For them. For a better world.”
Friendly Reminder that she knew that one way or another she wouldn’t be able to lead her army.
Friendly Reminder that while her grand plan was all coming together in front of her friends and court she was in iron chains and locked inside an iron coffin with an iron mask on her face sailing overseas to Doranelle where nothing but torture at the hands of Cairn (a sadist worse than Farran) awaited her.
Friendly Reminder that “she did not believe they would come for her.”
(Quotes from EoS Chapter 75 pages 682 & 683)
