During this process, they start to understand more and more that their initial impressions of each other were wrong and that they are more kindred spirits than anything else.

Maas weaves a captivating story of a world about to explode--and the people who will do anything to save it.

She is slowly growing into a witch with emotions to challenge the others who think that they do not. However, at the end of the book, we also found out that Celaena was actually Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, the lost queen of Terrasen, and that she has now actually been sent to the country of her mother.

Asterin is Manon's second cousin and closest friend, who has been protecting her for around a century. Only ash and an abyss and the unbreakable vow she’d carved into her flesh, to the friend who had seen her for what she truly was. Sorrel tells Manon that more than anyone Asterin has never forgotten for a second what the Matron is capable of.

When they see each other after being months apart, Aelin embraces him and starts to cry, stating how much she had missed him.