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“What's at the bottom of the pit?' I asked as Rhys came up beside me, his shoulder brushing mine.

'I once dared Cassian to fly down and see,' Rhys braced his hands on the railing, gazing down into the gloom.

'And?'

'And he came back up, faster than I've ever seen him fly, white as death. He never told me what he saw. The first few weeks, I thought it was a joke- just to pique my curiosity. But when I finally decided to see for myself a a month later, he threatened to tie me to a chair. He said some things were better left unseen and undisturbed. It's been two hundred years, and he still won't tell me what he saw. If you even mention it, he goes pale and shaky and won't talk for a few hours.'

My blood chilled. 'Is it... some sort of monster?'

'I have no idea.' Rhys jerked his chin toward Clotho, the priestess patiently waiting a few steps behind us, her face still in shadow. 'They don't speak or write of it, so if they know... They certainly won't tell me. So if it doesn't bother us, then I won't bother it. That is, if it's even an it. Cassian never said if he saw anything living down there. Perhaps it's something else entirely.'

Considering the things I'd already witnessed... I didn't want to think about what lay at the bottom of the library. Or what could make Cassian, who had seen more dreadful and deadly parts of the world than I could ever imagine, so terrified.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I whispered to the lurking dark behind me, 'What is your price?'
...
Company. Send me company.

I opened my mouth, but them said, 'To- eat?'

A laugh that made my skin crawl. To tell me of life.
...
'It's a bargain,' I breathed. The skin along my left forearm tingled. The thing behind me... I could have sworn I felt it smile.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Rhys strode to me, and lifted a hand to brush my hair- but stopped upon seeing the blood crusting his fingers. He instead studied the tattoo now marring my left arm. 'As long as we don't have to invite it to solstice dinner, I can live with it.'

'You can live with it?' I lifted my brows.

A ghost of a smile, even with all that had happened, that now lay before us. 'At least now if one of you misbehaves, I know the perfect punishment. Going down there to talk to that thing for an hour.'

Nesta scowled with distaste, but Cassian let out a dark laugh. 'I'll take scrubbing toilets, thank you.'

'Your second encounter seemed less harrowing than the first.'

'It wasn't trying to eat me this time.' But shadows still darkened his eyes.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Sweet Bryaxis has vanished. Do you know what that means?'

'That I have to go hunt it down and put it back in the library?'

'Oh, you most certainly do.'

I twisted in his lap, looping my arms around his neck as I said, 'And will you come with me? On this adventure- and all the rest?'

Rhys leaned forward and kissed me. 'Always.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin