The Emperor’s rooms, usually a place where I could think straight, plan, and feel my strength back, now felt like a prison. The shiny wooden floors of my study seemed to laugh at me with every step I took. I walked back and forth, the sound of my boots like a drum for my growing anger. My advisors had given me the royal order, something needed, a way to show Kaldor its Emperor was back, strong and in charge. It was meant to heal the kingdom, to bring everyone together. But the most important part of that plan, the woman meant to be my Empress, the symbol of hope I had so boldly announced, was gone. Vanished like smoke. How could she had just vanished. What could have happened? "She was here one moment, and then… gone," I growled, my voice tight and rough. Anger, cold and sharp, burned inside me. I had sent out my best men, the soldiers who had promised their lives to me. I had told them clearly: find Liora. Bring her to me. I needed her here, with me, to keep the promise I had made,
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