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CHAPTER SIX

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I woke to pain.

It lived in my arms, deep and throbbing, as if the boy’s wound had been carved into my own bones and left there. My eyelids felt heavy. When I forced them open, the world came back in pieces. Stone ceiling. Dim torchlight. The scent of clean linen mixed with something sharper underneath. Fear.

I was lying on a narrow cot in a small room I did not recognize. Not the servants’ quarters. Not the lower chambers Kael had locked me in before. This room sat higher in the palace. A sing
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