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Chapter 9: The Challenge at the Gates

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Selena’s POV

“How do I look?” I asked.

Nia considered me with the seriousness of someone taking the question literally.

“Dangerous,” she said.

I picked up the small comb from the dresser and pulled my hair back myself.

“Good,” I said. “Let’s go.”

-----

The corridor outside the council chamber was lined with people.

Not guards but nobles. Members of the court in their formal dress, positioned on both sides of the hall the way people position themselves when they want to watch something happen an
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