“Wait,” a voice Morgana knows too well barks, stopping her in her tracks.She slowly turns in the direction of the voice.Lady Victoria steps down from the dais, her heels clicking sharply against the marble floor. She walks directly over to Morgana, her face twisted with suspicion.“The Priestess may be satisfied with a blurry aura, but I am not,” Victoria says, her voice dripping with venom as she looks at Morgana. “She still has to take the purity concoction like the rest. We must be absolutely certain no sickness or hidden poison resides in a servant so close to the royal chambers.”At her words, the head maid serving the purity concoction steps forward, carrying a golden chalice filled with the steaming dark liquid.Morgana looks down at the liquid, and her blood runs cold. She looks up at Victoria's face.She's not pure; if she drinks this potion, the herbs will tear her lining apart. It will kill her child.“Drink it, Morgana,” Victoria commands, leaning in close, a cruel, mock
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