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What the First Royal Said

Author: Alessia Frost
last update publish date: 2026-08-31 10:33:30

POV: Sierra

The spirit realm stopped.

Not gradually, not with the slow settling of a process winding down. It simply stopped, as though a door had opened and changed the temperature of the entire room. The garden, the chains, Paige's dark magic crackling between her raised hands... all of it hung suspended, held by a command from a power with unquestionable authority.

The voice had been one word. Enough.

Sierra had felt it through her Bond-Touched consciousness, just as she had felt the pool's
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