“My grandmother,” I repeated slowly, the word strange in my mouth. “You knew her?”“I served her,” the woman said. “Before everything fell apart.”Kael shifted slightly beside me, close enough that I felt it rather than saw it, his attention fixed entirely on the woman across the table. I understood his caution. I didn’t share it, not fully, not with grief sitting so plainly across that stranger’s face.“Tell me your name,” I said.“Mira,” she answered. “Of House Thessaly, though I doubt that name has meant anything to you until recently.”I sat down across from her slowly, Kael remaining standing just behind me, and Rowan’s presence somewhere near the door felt distant now, almost unnecessary. Whatever this woman was, she hadn’t come to hurt me. I understood that with a certainty I couldn’t fully explain, the same instinct that had once told me to trust Lucien long before I had any real reason to.“You’ve been watching the palace,” I said.“Watching you,” she corrected gently. “And t
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