" Why hasn’t Annika sent a retrieval party?”
“Now, don’t feel slighted—I’m sure she will soon—but right now she’s focused on finding Myst. She figured if Ivo is looking for a Valkyrie, it’d have to be Myst. Remember, she was in his dungeon only five years ago? And had that incident with the rebel general?”
Like Emma would ever forget. Myst herself had confided to Emma that she might as well have been caught freebasing with the ghost of Bundy.
“See,” Nix said, “other Valkyrie like the forbidden fruit as much as you do. "

― Kresley Cole , A Hunger Like No Other (Immortals After Dark, #1)