Aery bit her lip to keep from crying. "Why is this so easy, Celaena?" She whispered. "Didn't that letter say it would be getting harder for all of us? And... Where are we even going?" Out of the corner of her eye she saw another guard approaching at the run. Celaena was positioned wrong to see him.
She ducked, spinning, drawing a throwing knife from her armguard. Sent it whirling into the guard's throat. She barely saw the blood come spurting out before she realized what she'd done, killing another person. She clapped both hands over her mouth, sinking to the ground, the tears that she'd held back before flooding out of her eyes. "I killed another person. I'm sick of all this death, Celaena, of killing and maiming people... I killed another person." She shook her head, obviously disgusted with herself.