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Chapter 13: Gilded Chains
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2026-08-19 19:00:00The attendant's name was Yara, and she moved through Elena's new chambers with the brisk, unbothered efficiency of a woman who had clearly seen stranger things than a laundry slave installed in the sovereign wing overnight.
"Arms up," Yara said, for the third time, holding a length of deep green silk that probably cost more than every stitch of clothing Elena had owned in her entire life at Ravenswood combined. "You keep flinching like I'm going to stab you with the pins.""
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