Blood and Rain
"I am. And I don't write redundant ledgers to soothe an old man's paranoia. We streamline the line, or we lose the bottleneck entirely when the weather turns."
Aelion felt that familiar, breathless thrum vibrate through his chest—the exact same sensation that had arrested him in the weirwood chamber. Up close, without the grand theatricality of the high court, her intellect was even more staggering. She didn't argue with emotion; she handled the survival of an immortal realm with the absolute, unyielding precision of a master architect. She was a beautiful, lethal enigma, and every time she looked at him with that fierce, analytical clarity, he felt a dangerous, quiet fascination tightening
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