KEIRANI didn’t ask her if she wanted to leave. I took her hand immediately and I walked her out of that chamber before the doors had fully closed behind us, before the elders could call for anything else, before Gareth’s allies could regroup and find their footing again.She didn’t resist. That alone..that quiet trust in my grip nearly broke something open in my chest.I led her down through the oldest corridor in the palace, past the servants’ stairs, past the sealed rooms nobody entered anymore, down into the lower level where the stone grew warm underfoot and the air thickened with heat and minerals and something ancient. The private hot spring under the east wing. A room I had never shown another person.The torchlight caught the surface of the water as we entered, amber and wavering, steam curling upward in slow, ghostlike ribbons.I locked the door behind us. Evelyn stood at the edge of the pool, taking it in. The tension across her shoulders hadn’t fully dissolved yet. Her c
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