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The Omen in My Voice Chapter 9
A minister loyal to Emperor Alaric held up the sealed order.It said plainly, "If House Ellery seizes the government, or the Emperor is placed in danger, the Red Mesa Legion may enter Stoneharbor to defend the Crown."When the soldiers forced the Dowager Queen down, she tried to play mad."I knew nothing. My brother deceived me."Ellery turned on her instantly."Poisoning the late Emperor was your idea, and you're the one who demanded your son take the throne."The old allies started tearing each other open.How Alaric died, how the antidote disappeared, all of it came out of their mouths piece by piece.Moira knelt in a corner with a gray face.I walked up to the Dowager Queen, who was still trying to hold herself like a ruler."Elara Northcott, you're a baseborn nobody. You've no right to question me."I picked up the broken prayer beads beside her."You've prayed for years, and there's still slow poison under your fingernails."She pulled her hands back on instinct, and
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Cassian had barely started recovering when Lord Regent Jasper Ellery moved troops into Stoneharbor.Claiming he meant to remove the witch controlling the Emperor, he pulled thirty thousand soldiers out of the central garrison overnight and ringed Starfall Palace like an iron band.The Dowager Queen set a trap dressed as a banquet in Ivory Lantern Court and had me hauled in front of her.She sat at the head of the chamber, still wearing the face of a grieving mother."Elara. Admit the Emperor's judgment was destroyed by witchcraft, and I'll let you die in one piece."My father, Moira, and Beatrice knelt below her.The moment they looked up, I knew Northcott Hall had found itself a new master.Moira produced a bill of sale."Your Majesty, this girl isn't Northcott blood at all."I picked her up out of a refugee camp. Her mother was a Veyran spy."Bastard. The word still went into me like a splinter.They meant to strip away even the last name I had to stand on.My father bowe
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I carried the silver bell to Cassian.He sat behind a writing desk, studied the clan mark, and pushed a sealed intelligence file toward me."Your mother wasn't some medicine trader's daughter."Two words were written at the top of the page: Stormscent Lineage.My fingers stopped on the paper.Cassian explained."There was a line of women in Veyra who could read a disaster before it finished forming, by scent and by pulse. They were called Stormscent women."My throat tightened. I'd never been a calamity.When I was seven, I smelled the metallic cold coming off the thin part of the lake ice, and that was why I said Beatrice's fingers would rot with frost.When I was thirteen, the horses were restless in the stable.I smelled bloodroot on Moira's sleeve and said she'd see blood before sunset.Cassian opened another report."Your mother came into Stoneharbor under a false name to deliver an antidote to my father. The formula vanished, and Nerissa died of a sudden illness."I
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Cassian put me in a side apartment of Starfall Palace.Hot food covered the table, and a soft quilt lay across the bed.I sat there without eating and wouldn't let my eyes close.Every person in that palace smiled with perfect restraint: the attendants pouring tea, the maids carrying dishes, all of them exactly correct.Sure enough, the royal physicians came the next day to ask for my antidote.Their leader, Dr. Orson Pell, smiled warmly."Lady Elara saved His Majesty. I admire your skill."The Emperor's health is the realm's. Would you let the Royal College review your formula?"I spread a sheet of paper in front of me. "Of course."He blinked, surprised I'd given in so easily.I wrote slowly and deliberately added one ingredient that worked against the rest.The amount wouldn't kill Cassian, but it would make him bring up black blood.Pell's eyes stayed fixed on the page.I folded the formula."I'll prepare His Majesty's medicine myself."That night a shadow crossed th
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The incense stick dropped out of Beatrice's hand.Terror emptied her face, and her legs folded under her.The doors of the mourning hall burst open. The Dowager Queen swept in with Crown Guards and royal physicians.They'd marched me in under guard at the back of the procession.One glance told me the black, web-shaped lines had spread across Cassian's chest again.I tried to step forward, but the Dowager Queen raised a hand and a blade came up against my throat.She walked over and lifted my chin with a jeweled finger guard."Tell me, girl. Did you come here to lift the Emperor's curse, or to set the last mark that kills him?"Beatrice knelt nearby, crying until her face paint streaked."Your Majesty, it was her. Elara was the burial sacrifice, not me. She used witchcraft on me and on the Emperor."The blade cut deeper, and blood ran under my collar.The Dowager Queen didn't even glance at her. She smiled at me instead."Wake the Emperor and I'll make you Royal Physician t
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Northcott Hall didn't dare bring the city watch into it.My father swore I'd been staging tricks and had the household guards drag me home.They forced me to kneel outside the family shrine, the spot reserved for every beating and punishment of my childhood.Beatrice set my mother's urn beside a brazier."Admit you're a calamity, and admit you went to the royal tomb willingly."Then I might be generous enough to give this ugly jar back."She sent a maid to fetch the last winter coat my mother had sewn before she died."Remember this, Elara? You were seven, and you cursed me over this rag."It should've been burned years ago, but you guarded it like treasure."Moira gave the housekeeper, Winifred Doyle, a look."Hold her down. Make her bow to Lady Beatrice."Winifred pressed a hand to the back of my neck."Bow to your sister and thank her for keeping Northcott Hall's dignity."As my face neared the floor, I locked both arms and held.My father shouted, "Why haven't you adm
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