Seraphina's POVThe blade warmed in my hand the moment I closed my fingers around it, the mark beneath my collar responding in kind, a slow pulse that matched neither my heartbeat nor anything I recognized as my own.The chamber blurred around me, and I stood suddenly somewhere else, this same room, years younger in every carved line, my mother standing where I stood now. She wasn't alone. A man faced her, his back to me, though something in his bearing struck me as unmistakably familiar.Kael's father.My mother extended the blade toward him, her hands steady despite whatever fear must have lived beneath her composure."If you betray me," she said, "my daughter will pay for it."The memory dissolved before he answered, leaving me gripping empty air where the vision had stood a moment before.She hadn't feared the royal family from a distance. She had known them personally, trusted them enough to hand over something this precious, and something had gone wrong badly enough that she'd s
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