The gate guard's voice cracked when he reported it, and I knew before he finished the sentence that something had gone wrong with the peace we'd only just begun to rebuild."A woman, my king. Alone, on foot, no escort. She walked up the mountain road in the rain and stopped at the gate as though she had an appointment." He swallowed. "She says she comes from the Drowned Court."Jasper was already standing. I felt the room change around him, the palace's warm domestic quiet folding back into the cold, controlled stillness he wore for enemies. Across the nursery, Seren's eyes shifted, hybrid light flaring once against the dim, and Veal's storm-grey gaze snapped toward the door with an attention no infant should have possessed."Did she give a name?""Only that she carries a message, and that she will give it to the Healer in person." The guard's eyes flicked toward me, then away. "She asked for you by title, my queen. Not by name. By what you are."Silver eyes. The healer who shouldn't
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