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Chapter 103. Strength and Support

Author: jengreyy
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* Zeina *

The next day follows and as usual I begin with a brief meeting with both Beta Kael and Aldin then a check up from Isolde. When the chamber had only just settled into a breath of silence, Isolde retreating to the window, Kael and Aldin taking their positions near the map wall, when a low, sharp knock echoed from the door. It was not a request. It was a declaration.

Donna moved quickly, her instincts honed, her blade hand hovering at her side as she opened it.

A tall figure stood framed in the doorway, cloaked in storm-grey wool, his presence impossible to mistake.

"Beta Osuof," Donna said, voice clipped with both surprise and respect. "From the Royal Palace Seat."

He stepped inside, the fur-lined mantle of the Royal Beta heavy with frost and rank. His dark bronze skin glinted beneath the torchlight, and the intricate tattoos of his station, etched in silver and obsidian ink, spiraled from his jaw down his neck and disappeared beneath leather armor. His eyes, sharp as a hawk's
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