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CHAPTER TWENTY
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CRESCENT OF DESTINY CHAPTER TWENTY - FIVE
The king was incandescently furious.He was also, as Louis had predicted, briefly so.We stood in his private sitting room at two in the morning, all five of us, and he looked at us like he was deciding which lecture to reach for first. The one about security. The one about royal protocol. The one about his heir walking into a dangerous compound without authorization.He chose a fourth option none of us had anticipated. He sat down, looking serious as ever."Is Isam secured?" he asked."He’s at the garrison house," Safiya said. "With double guard.""The two men with him?""Same thing, My king."“What about his compound?""My soldiers are there now. We're cataloging everything we find."The king nodded. Slowly and precisely. "Casualties on our side?""None, Your Majesty."He nodded again and then he looked at me."You went anyway," he said."Yes." I had to swallow my nervousness and reply him confidently."After I said no.""Yes.""Because you thought you were right and I was wrong.""
CRESCENT OF DESTINY CHAPTER TWENTY - FOUR
One of the captured attackers talked by evening.It took Safiya four hours, which she described as fast, and the look on her face when she said it told me she had pushed hard and he had broken under circumstances I was better off not asking about in detail.Isam was in the city. Specifically, a compound on the far western edge near the old tannery district, a property held through a chain of intermediaries that had actually been mentioned in a footnote in Faris's archive. None of us had caught it, because asLady Amara pointed out with exhausted professionalism, footnotes were easy to miss when you were reading documents at midnight under pressure."At least twenty people with him," Safiya reported. "Possibly more. He's been using the compound as a staging point for weeks.""Can we take it?" Louis asked."With enough soldiers, yes. But he'll know we're coming. He has lookouts positioned. A large force on the main streets gives him time to disappear before we arrive.""So we go small,"
CRESCENT OF DESTINY CHAPTER TWENTY - THREE
My mother's letter said:“My Khalifa, if you're reading this then the world has found you, which means it was never going to leave you alone no matter how carefully I hid us. I'm sorry for that. I should have been braver. I should have stayed and fought. But you were so small and I was so tired and I just wanted you to live. If you're reading this, you're alive. Whatever else happened, you're alive. That's everything.”There was more. Names of House Rashad's remaining supporters, which ones to trust. Details about hidden assets that had turned out to be found and spent long ago, though she hadn't known that when she wrote it. Things about the mark on my face that went beyond what the High Priest and the old texts had told me.And at the very end,“The Warrior Moon doesn't mean you were born to fight. It means you were born to decide. There will come a moment when you can choose war or choose something else. The kings and the generals and the ambitious men will tell you the choice has
CRESCENT OF DESTINY CHAPTER TWENTY - TWO
Three days. No sign of Farah.Safiya's people covered the merchant's street, the outer districts, every road going north and south out of the capital. She was simply gone, which meant she'd had help, which meant the network Faris had belonged to had roots deep enough to pull someone out of a locked-down city in under an hour."She's already wherever she's going," Safiya said on the third morning, standing in the training yard with her arms crossed and her expression like Farah's disappearance was a personal insult."Can we trace her contacts?" I asked."We're trying. She arrived at the palace six months ago with letters of recommendation from a minor noble house in the western province. We sent people to verify. The house exists. The noble exists. He says he's never heard of her.""Forged letters.""Good ones."I hit the practice dummy hard enough to sting my wrists."So she was placed before I arrived," I said. "Not hired after. Before anyone knew I was coming here.""Which means who
CRESCENT OF DESTINY CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
The formal address lasted twenty minutes.The king spoke first about Faris, Nasir, about the conspiracy that had reached into the court's deepest corners and the evidence that had finally pulled it into the light. He was precise, measured and by the time he finished, the room was very, very quiet.Then it was my turn.I stepped forward and spoke the words Louis and I had rehearsed. Clear, direct, no hesitation. I renounced any claim to the throne. I affirmed the king's rule. I accepted my title and my place in the dynasty.I said everything I was supposed to say.Then I added something we hadn't rehearsed."House Rashad was defeated a hundred years ago," I said. "My family fought to keep what was theirs and they lost. Many people died on both sides of that war. I didn't live through it. Neither did most of you." I looked out at the room. "But I was raised in its shadow. In hiding. Without knowing who I was. My mother died for it." I let the silence hold for a moment. "I'm not interest
CRESCENT OF DESTINY CHAPTER TWENTY
Salma arrived at the palace gates at noon.I was in the middle of a briefing with Lord Ibrahim on the formal address to the court, which was in three hours, my head already packed with protocol and phrasing and the king's specific instructions, when Zara appeared in the doorway."She's here," she said, voice carefully neutral. "She brought a trunk. And Nadine.""Of course she did."I apologized to Ibrahim and went to find Louis.He was already in one of the formal reception rooms near the entrance. Salma sat across from him with Nadine at her side, looking completely at ease, like she had come for tea with old friends.She looked exactly the same. Well-dressed, sharp-eyed, the kind of woman who made every room feel smaller just by walking into it.Nadine saw me first. Her expression moved through several things quickly. Surprise, then calculation, then the practiced sweetness she had always reached for when she wanted something.Salma looked at me for a long moment."You look well," s
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