“I’m going to ask her for help finding the Ringmaster.” Lambert is firm about that. “She doesn’t have to send a force with us if she doesn’t want to, but her people still know how to make weapons and use magic. We’ll not make it through the Wyld Lands with what we’ve got.”
What they’ve got being everything magic or almost magic that was on their person when they were kidnapped, for one, but also their dwindling power.
“There’s also telling the Summer Court this happened, that Winter is allying with the Huntsman. Maybe they’ll believe us, maybe they write it off as some eccentric getting away with shit at the fringes of Winter. But the Huntsman mentioned the Winter Queen, and the Ringmaster went down too fucking fast for a fae like her. If Winter’s getting bolder, they’ll strike at Summer soon enough. They can’t afford to ignore it completely.”
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What they’ve got being everything magic or almost magic that was on their person when they were kidnapped, for one, but also their dwindling power.
“There’s also telling the Summer Court this happened, that Winter is allying with the Huntsman. Maybe they’ll believe us, maybe they write it off as some eccentric getting away with shit at the fringes of Winter. But the Huntsman mentioned the Winter Queen, and the Ringmaster went down too fucking fast for a fae like her. If Winter’s getting bolder, they’ll strike at Summer soon enough. They can’t afford to ignore it completely.”