Kingdom to run

Margot I found her in the narrow corridor near the laundry rooms. She was carrying a stack of white towels, her head bent so low her chin almost touched her collar.I did not ask. I simply grabbed her upper arm and pulled her into the nearby supply room. The towels slipped from her hands, cluttering the floor. I shut the wooden door and stood right in front of it, blocking her only way out."What did I tell you?" I said, my voice quiet but sharp.She did not answer. She stood there, looking down at the scattered towels.I stepped closer, invading her space until she had to tilt her head back slightly to look at me. I pointed my index finger straight at the floor. "I told to You stay down here. In the dark. Where you belong."Then, I pressed my palm flat against her chest, pushing her back an inch. "And Do not try to stand tall. Make yourself smaller. If I see you in the main halls again, I will make sure Celia throws you out into the street."She still did not speak. I reached down a

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Margaux The wooden door of the supply room clicked shut. Margot was gone.I looked down at the floor. The white towels I had been carrying were scattered across the concrete. I stood still for exactly ten seconds, letting the silence of the room wash over me.Margot had made her threats. She had pressed her hand against my chest and gripped my wrist. But as I stood there in the quiet room, I realized something important.I was not afraid of her.I checked the feeling again, searching my mind the way a soldier checks their gear before a march. It was true. There was no fear in me. I was cautious, yes. I was strategic. I knew I had to be careful. But Margot did not scare me anymore. Five years ago, her anger would have made me cry. Now, it just felt like extra noise.I bent down, picked up the clean towels one by one, and shook the dust off them. I stacked them neatly back into the wicker basket.When I stepped back into the service corridor, the air was cool. I walked toward the laund

Two people

DorianI opened the blue folder for the third time that day. The name Mara stared back at me from the blank page.No last name. No middle name. Just five letters."You have been looking at that same page for two hours," Garrett said, walking into my study. He set a stack of printed security logs on the corner of my wooden desk."Look at this," I said, pointing at the paper. "She is registered as coming from an eastern village. But the person who vouched for her is from a pack in the southeast. Why would someone from the southeast care about a kitchen maid from the east?"Garrett pulled up a chair and sat down. "It could be a family connection. Maybe Celia knows the family.""Celia does not make mistakes like this," I said. "She has run this palace for thirty years. She knows every face that enters. But when I asked her about Mara yesterday, she did not look me in the eye. She looked at the floor.""Celia?" Garrett looked surprised. "She has been loyal to your family since we were chil

The Garden

I knelt on the damp grass near the stone wall, pulling my thin jacket tighter around my shoulders. I had a small metal trowel in my hand, and I began to dig into the soil to gather the roots the cook had asked for.As I worked, something shifted.It did not feel like an explosion. There was no sudden rush of heat or dramatic strength. It felt as if a heavy wooden door inside my mind, a door I did not even know was locked, had quietly moved open by one single inch.My wolf, which had been silent and flat for a while , slowly lifted its head.Suddenly, the cold air around me changed. It was no longer just cold. It was full of information. I could feel the distance between the trees. I could hear the faint, trickle of the water fountains three hundred yards away. I could smell the metal of the outer gates and the distant, cold stone of the mountains.All my life, living so close to Margot had thinned everything inside me. Her presence had always acted like a blanket, smothering my own na

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Kingdom to run

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Two people

The Garden