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THE LYCAN PRINCESS THEY BURIED Chapter 102
**Elira's POV**I could survive a prison. I could not, it turned out, survive a curtsy."Again, Highness," said Lady Corvina.She was the Queen's master of ceremony, a long, thin woman of sixty with a face like a carved saint's, and she'd been correcting me for two hours. I stood in the center of a mirrored hall, in a gown I'd been told was merely *practice,* and sank into my seventh curtsy of the morning."Too deep," she said. "You are not apologizing."I rose and tried again."Too shallow. You are not dismissing a servant."I rose."Your eyes, Highness. They go to the floor. A princess does not look at the floor.""Where does she look?""At the room." Lady Corvina's voice was dry. "As if it were hers."I let out a slow breath and tried not to think about how many times I'd walked into rooms with my gaze lowered to the stones. Prison taught you that. A guard's eyes were a gamble. A cell mate's, a threat. The floor never hit you.I curtsied again. My knees ached."Better," said Lady C
THE LYCAN PRINCESS THEY BURIED Chapter 101
Elira's POV I'd imagined a city. I hadn't imagined this. We came over the last ridge on the fifth afternoon, with the sun low and gold at our backs, and the carriage rounded a bend, and Kael said quietly, "There." I leaned toward the window. It lay in a wide green valley, spread along a silver bend of river like something spilled from a jeweler's tray. White stone, thousands of roofs, every one of them catching the light. Towers rose in tiers from the center, narrow and tall, banded with gold. A great wall ran around the whole of it, pale and crenellated, with gates the size of cathedral doors. Above the highest tower, a single banner stood out against the sky, the crowned wolf on white. It was larger than anything I'd ever seen. Larger than anything I'd known could exist. "That's the Lycan capital," the Queen said gently. "That's home." I couldn't speak. Beside her, Kael watched my face with that quiet attention he always had. I'd told him about the rider on the second morni
THE LYCAN PRINCESS THEY BURIED Chapter 100: Arrival at Court
Elira's POVI'd imagined a city.I hadn't imagined this.We came over the last ridge on the fifth afternoon, with the sun low and gold at our backs, and the carriage rounded a bend, and Kael said quietly, "There."I leaned toward the window.It lay in a wide green valley, spread along a silver bend of river like something spilled from a jeweler's tray. White stone, thousands of roofs, every one of them catching the light. Towers rose in tiers from the center, narrow and tall, banded with gold. A great wall ran around the whole of it, pale and crenellated, with gates the size of cathedral doors. Above the highest tower, a single banner stood out against the sky, the crowned wolf on white.It was larger than anything I'd ever seen. Larger than anything I'd known could exist."That's the Lycan capital," the Queen said gently. "That's home."I couldn't speak.Beside her, Kael watched my face with that quiet attention he always had. I'd told him about the rider on the second morning, as so
THE LYCAN PRINCESS THEY BURIED Chapter 99: Closing the Act
Theron's POVHe didn't decide in the stable yard.That was what surprised him afterward. He'd expected a moment of agony, a long, dark struggle, a balance swinging one way and then the other. Instead, he stood in the lantern light with his father's letter in his hand and Elira's pale, steady face before him, and found that the choice had been made a long time ago. He'd only been waiting to notice."You said you won't ask me to choose you," he said."No.""Then I'll say it for you."Her breath caught."I choose you," Theron said. "I'm sorry if that's heavy. I know you'd have rather I didn't put it that way. But I'd rather be honest than light." He folded the letter, once, and slid it into his coat. "I'm going to the capital. I'm going to stand in that hall when they say your name. And then I'll deal with my father.""Theron, he's your—""I know what he is." He kept his voice gentle. "I love him. I'm not angry. But I won't be handed an alliance like a coat." He drew a breath. "I told yo
THE LYCAN PRINCESS THEY BURIED Chapter 98: Preparing for the Ceremony
Elira's POVThe capital was five days away, and every one of them was a negotiation.We traveled in a long, slow caravan. The royal carriage at the head, with the Queen and Kael and me. Behind it, Ronan's carriage, with Mother and Selene. Then Bastian's, then the baggage wagons, with the gray guards riding in a tight ring around all of it and Cassian at the rear, silent as a shadow. Theron rode beside my window, sometimes. He didn't speak. He only kept pace, and every time I glanced out, he was there.By the second evening, I'd learned that a princess was mostly a person other people measured."Stand up straight, my lady," said the seamstress.She was a small, brisk woman named Marta whom the Queen had summoned from the capital by fast rider, and she had followed us by express coach to the waystation where we'd stopped for the night. She stood on a stool beside me with a measuring tape around her neck and a mouthful of pins, and she regarded my shoulders with open disapproval."I am s
THE LYCAN PRINCESS THEY BURIED Chapter 97: Cassian's Full Apology
Elira's POVWe left at dawn on the third day.The courtyard was a chaos of carts and horses. Trunks were strapped, harness buckled, grooms shouting over the stamp of hooves. The gray guards sat their mounts in a tight ring around the royal carriage, and beyond the gates, the crowd in the lane had thinned to a hard, curious core that watched every movement with bright, patient eyes.I stood beside the carriage steps with a single small bag at my feet.It was absurd, how little I owned. A change of clothes. A hairbrush. A letter I'd folded and refolded and still hadn't answered, from a woman who loved me. My old list, flattened between two pages of a book. And the ugly gray folder from the prison, which I'd packed without quite knowing why.I'd been told I could bring anything I liked. A King's escort could carry whole rooms of belongings.I'd found, standing in my little guest room that morning, that there was almost nothing I wanted to take."Elira."I turned.Cassian stood a few pace
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