![]() ![]() ![]() Mostly because it was all she’d been able to afford when she landed in Wendlyn two weeks ago and made her way to the capital city, Varese, just as she’d been ordered by his Grand Imperial Majesty and Master of the Earth, the King of Adarlan. If she never ate another bite of teggya again, it would be too soon. Sick of the crunchy, oniony taste of it that even mouthfuls of water couldn’t wash away. Or maybe it felt that way because Celaena Sardothien had been lounging on the lip of the terra-cotta roof since midmorning, an arm flung over her eyes, slowly baking in the sun like the loaves of flatbread the city’s poorest citizens left on their windowsills because they couldn’t afford brick ovens.Īnd gods, she was sick of flatbread-teggya, they called it. Gods, it was boiling in this useless excuse for a kingdom. ![]()
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