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Chapter 97 ~ Promotion And Laughter

作者: Clinton Edits
last update 最終更新日: 2025-12-30 23:19:02

{Ava’s POV}

~ Two Days Later ~

The Palace smelled different now.

Not of smoke or blood or panic— but of stone cooling after heat, of damp earth exposed to air again, of something like breath returning to a body that had nearly suffocated.

They had cleared the worst of the wreckage now.

Broken weapons lay stacked in piles along the outer walls. Fallen banners were folded instead of burned. The dead had been buried away with reverence, not haste. People weren’t healed— not yet, but it was the beginning of recovery.

I stood at the edge of the assembly, watching. For once, no one was staring at me like I might erupt.

They were staring at Liam… and also at Edna.

Yes, Edna.

She stood at the center of the courtyard, shoulders squared, spine straight, chin lifted, not stiff, not proud, just… present. The morning light caught on her armor, newly reforged from Moonspire steel and Palace alloy, etched with clean lines instead of ornament.

Functional. Honest.

Very Edna.

Liam stood beside her, we
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