For nearly a year, Lilith Duskbane had languished in Stormfang’s dungeon.The stone had been cold, damp, and merciless. Rats skittered through the shadows, and her breath clouded against the iron bars when winter crept into the mountain keep. Silver cuffs bit into her wrists until the skin blistered, raw and red. Her lips cracked. Her body thinned.But her pride never bent.She was a Duskbane—noble-born, moon-blessed, heir to a bloodline that had outlasted kings. Chains could bruise her flesh, but they could not tarnish her name.And her family had not forgotten her.Every moon cycle, an emissary arrived— uncles, brothers, cousins cloaked in furs, their voices echoing through Stormfang’s council chamber. They brought petitions stamped with Duskbane seals, each written in fine calligraphy, each dripping with fury and entitlement.“It is beneath us,” one thundered, his fist striking the table. “To chain a daughter of the Duskbane line like a common criminal.”“She has paid enough,” ano
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