ELENA’S POV The heavy, leather-bound book Kaelen pressed into my open palm felt cold, its edges metallic and heavily rimed with the ancient, sulfurous frost of the tomb. "I don't need a dead queen's memories to tell me who my executioner is, Kaelen," I rasped, my voice a low shiver that cut through the ink-black stillness of the collapsed vault. My right hand remained buried deep in my jacket pocket, my fingers clutched around the pouch of Starlight Quicksilver, its liquid heat the only thing keeping the air inside this stone tomb from freezing my blood completely. "Read the seal, Elena," Kaelen’s voice rose from the dark dust beside my boots, a dry wheeze that throbbed with a synchronized twist against my ribs. "Just... read the script before the oxygen runs out." The front cover was etched with the distinct, glowing gold runes of the old Solar court, but beneath the royal wax, a network of jagged, dark containment lines spider-webbed across the leather. It was the true diar
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