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WARNING: KINGDOM OF ASH SPOILERS. DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE FIRST 100 PAGES OF KINGDOM OF ASH. If you have read at least 100 pages, there will be no spoilers. For those of you who haven't read it yet, you need to start. The book is amazing. And congrats to Sarah! KoA was the #1 NY times bestseller this week.

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Rowan POV

I spotted the Fae not two miles away from where we were camped. As soon as I saw them, I circled for a few seconds, taking in as much detail I could, before racing back to our camp.

I shifted the moment I landed, and walked over to where Elide and Gavriel were sitting by a small fire.

The past three months had been a blur. Elide, Gavriel, Lorcan and I had traveled to the far sides of the world, searching for my mate. I had kept track of each of the places we had gone in a small diary I had found. It was left in one of the many taverns we had searched for information in. It had been unused, so I figured it would do more good than bad to write down everywhere we looked.

Most people would see each place we visited as one more way we had failed. That the more places we visited, the longer it took, and that every crossed of place was a place that we had failed to find Aelin.

But I chose to see it as hope. Something that I was starting to run out of. Each place we visited was one less place we had to look. One step closer to finding my mate.

As soon as I landed Gavriel took one look at me and shot up.

"What did you find?" He said in a grave voice.

"Two fae, not two miles south from our location." I said

"Are they hostile?" Elide chimed in.

"I... I don't believe so. They looked... lost." I slowly said, trying to analyze what I had seen.

"...Lost?" Elide asked skeptically.

"I don't know what they are. There was a male and a female. The female looked fae, but not. Her ears were the same as a humans, only pointed. Unlike ours, which are much longer than a humans. And from what I could tell she didn't have elongated canines. And the male..." I frowned.

"What?" Elide asked, beginning to get impatient, though she was trying to hide it.

"The male had wings. And not feathered wings. Membranous. And his ears were rounded."

Gavriel frowned.

"Morath's agents?" Lorcan asked, appearing out of seemingly nowhere.

While Gavriel and I looked over at him, Elide kept her attention on me.

"I don't think so. They weren't Valg, as far as I could tell."

"So then we have two options," Elide said, thinking, "well, three. We could pack up and run,-"

Lorcan shook his head.

"we could confront them and ask them what they are doing here-"

Gavriel nodded.

"or we could ambush, capture, and interrogate them."

Lorcan looked rather please with that idea.

I thought them over, my mind clearer than it had been for months.

The first one defiantly wasn't an option. The third would make sense. It was four against one. We could easily capture them.

But the second...

"Here is what we are going to do..."

We waited.

The strange possibly faeries were headed exactly toward our camp, and I shifted to spy on them as they walked through the forest.

Well, "walked" was a generous term. More stumbled. Based on their appearance (and scent) I would say they had been in the forest for several days.

But the more I watched them, I realized that they weren't stumbling on just exhaustion. They were walking as if something was pulling them along. Directly to our camp.

Stick to the plan, I though to myself.

I picked up on bits of their conversation.

"I keep trying to get through... like something is blocking me..." The female said.

"Maybe whatever that... blocked you but not... where... Feyre." The male said.

Feyre- finally, a name.

They had accents I had never heard before. They spoke their words rather bluntly, and accented certain syllables to an extreme.

They walked rather slowly, and spent most of the time in silence.

It wasn't until they got within a half mile of our camp that the male suddenly stopped.

He said something to the female- Feyre.

Feyre's reply was a bit more clear.

"We need to... Cassian. And do you... watched."

Cassian- another name.

And watched? Watched what?

I cursed myself for not being able to fly closer, for fear of the fae sensing me.

I was far enough away that it was impossible for them to be able to sense me, so I wasn't too worried about the "watched" comment.

I just prayed that I would stay undetected until they stumbled into our camp. And the trap waiting for them.

A/N: And that folks, is the only Rowan PoV chapter that you will see from me, as it turns out I cannot due him justice. I'm so sorry if he is OC. I can write him when it isn't his thoughts. But seeing in his head is an entirely different skill that I don't have.

And sorry it is so short.