>>Aelin
"What…?" The word just escaped from my mouth. The room seemed to tilt. I gripped the edge of the chair, my pulse thundering in my ears. "That's… impossible," I stammered. "Why would anyone do that? How could they even do that?"
"That," he said grimly, "is what I've been trying to find out."
His words left me reeling. Everything I thought I knew about the war—about the horrors Draegon had faced, the monsters that had nearly destroyed us all—felt like it was crumbling beneath me. "You're saying someone… chose to bring those monsters here?" I whispered, disbelief lacing my voice.
The people who witnessed the terrifying eye appearing in the sky and then saw it was actually a gate that opened from where dark abnormally terrifying creatures came pouring in, most of them died. Only a handful of people lived to tell what happened.
