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Chapter 15 — Inheritance

Penulis: Nyra Veyne
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-05-21 21:26:29

She read the letter alone first.

Not because she'd been asked to. Because when Davan handed it across, she had looked at the people in the room and understood that whatever was inside it was going to change the shape of this conversation in ways she needed to see before anyone else did. She took it to the sovereign chamber, which opened for her without being asked, and sat in the first sovereign's chair — worn smooth at the arms, shaped by someone else's hands — and read it in the amber light.

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