I woke with the High Priestess’s words still sitting in my chest.*They may have been waiting for the royal bloodline to return.*I looked at my own reflection and felt the weight of everything now surrounding my children. Yesterday, they were simply mine. Today, the kingdom called them heirs, the ancient records tied them to something enormous, an enemy might have been waiting for them specifically, and kingdoms were beginning to take interest.I refused to let fear make decisions in my place.*Whatever happens next, I will not let anyone turn my children into the reason kingdoms destroy each other.*-----Lucien summoned the inner circle privately — myself, Rowan, Aldren, Kael, the High Priestess, the physician.Rowan presented the map found in the old passage. My wing, marked. The maternity section, marked. The archive, marked. Every connecting route, marked, and recently.Whoever had made it understood this palace with unsettling precision.We all understood, sitting with it, that
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