Emrys tells Rowan he’s an asshole for pushing her down when she’s trying to get up, and explains that Celaena’s mother, Evalin, has worked in the kitchens with him twenty-five years ago, and that obviously he knows who Celaena is. Then, when Abraxos’s wings are improved with the flawless spidersilk, she tries to get him to make the cross across the Gap, but he refuses, and fucking Iskra whips him. They soon start building a relationship as friends and Aelin/Celaena even remarks that she 'had loathed him', because she felt that she was looking at a 'mirror image' of herself. Rowan's and Aelin's feelings for each other become stronger as they explore the more physical aspects of their relationship.

The mark on Celaena’s brow, that occasionally shows (like during the battle with Cain) is a bastard’s mark.She sacrificed herself and left her daughter Elide and husband Cal for nothing, because Aelin never became queen.

Will Celaena find the strength not only to win her own battles but to fight a war that could pit her loyalties to her own people against those she has grown to love? At breakfast the day after Manon talks to Ghislaine about the Valg, a coven of Yellowlegs under a witch named Ninya volunteer for implantation. She senses that the bait wyvern being used for Titus to attack wants a shot at him, and, after slicing the smaller wyvern free and killing Titus with its help, Manon claims the bait beast as her mount, much to the annoyance of her grandmother who thinks that it is too weak to be the wyvern of a future Wing Leader. She’d memorized their rotations, and how they opened the three massive gates that led into the castle. When the clans are to choose their mounts, Iskra shoves Manon into the training pit where the Wyverns are showing off their qualities.

Manon and Abraxos barely manage to escape, and as she slips into unconsciousness again, Manon tells him to fly to the coast and find somewhere safe. Aelin asks him how he recovered from the loss, and he says he hasn't and may never will, but that maybe they could recover together. Birds circled above, keeping well away from the white-tailed hawk that had been perched atop a nearby chimney all morning, waiting to snatch up its next meal. Manon sees Dorian shapeshift into a raven and discovers that he is planning on going to Morath to retrieve the third Wyrdkey. Combat Skills: Rowan is accounted one of the foremost warriors in the world, being able to defeat any other being in single combat and often defeat many opponents at once.