In the middle of the night when Celaena is casually wandering the castle she sees a mysterious cloaked creature outside the library and the Eye of Elena starts to glow (you know, the necklace she got from Queen Elena’s ghost to tell her when evil things are happening? Mort tells her that the king has had that one since he was just twenty years old, and he also confirms the king has one or two of the keys. He joins the King’s counsil for whatever reasons, although Celaena notices that he wears a black ring that the King himself, Duke Perrington (his most trusted advisor and type A asshole) and Cain (Perrington’s former Champion, who is kind of dead) wear. Yellowlegs threatens to tell her what Dorian came to ask her, so Celaena realizes she has to kill the witch. Though she supposed severed limbs and heads would turn the stomachs of most people—even after living for a decade under Adarlan’s rule.

Celaena cherishes her friendship with Nehemia, Princess of Eyllwe—she opens up to the princess about everything that’s happened in the glass castle, and this honesty brings them closer as they work to solve the riddles together. The king drummed his fingers on the arm of the throne, still playing with Nirall’s ring in his other hand. The second riddle also said the Wyrdmarks/gate were obsidian, and so are the rings on the hands of the king, Perrington, previously Cain, and now also Roland Havilliard. Things that didn't line up before, finally did, and it was nice that small little moments that occurred in the first book, finally made sense.about the Wyrdkeys, the creature she and Dorian killed in the tomb beneath the library, and how the king has some bigger, evil plan that she still doesn’t fully understand. Chaol, Calaena’s love interest in the novel is someone I very much championed for in Throne of Glass, because he had this sense of simplicity and warmth about him that made him highly attractive. Archer says they now realize that it’s the king who will question Nehemia very soon, and he thinks they will torture and maybe even kill her.

Even though the fact that Aelin is alive should be impossible, because she was murdered ten years ago, Celaena decides to give him to the end of the month to fake his own death and flee the city, and meanwhile, give her all the information. Then Chaol is kidnapped by the rebel movement Archer is a part of, and Celaena goes off to rescue him, which of course she does, by slaying everyone in the warehouse they have hidden Chaol in. spoiler -----> I predict as he learns to control his new abilities, he, combined Celaena, will bring down the King.It's survival, and her training, and other assets (will get into those with a spoiler warning) have saved her life many times over.

Vivid Celaena, loving and brutally violent in turn, is a fully realized heroine… An epic fantasy readers will immerse themselves in and never want to leave.She kills Grave and takes his head to the king, accusing Minister Mullison of orchestrating the assassination.