Chapter 73 Lilith’s POVThe High Sanctuary was not peaceful; even though it quietness was deadly , it was heavy, suffocating, and lined with liquid gold.I sat on the velvet chaise in the royal solar, staring down at my reflection in a silver basin of the clear sun-well water. The woman looking back at me was flawless. My skin was smooth, flushed with a healthy, radiant warmth, and the golden sunburst seal of Aethelgard hummed gently against my collarbone.My core was healed. The violent, agonizing furnace that had threatened to burn me to ash for nineteen years was completely gone, replaced by a quiet, steady flame that answered my every breath.Right now, I was safe and at was home.So why did my chest feel like an empty chamber filled with lead?I raised my fingers, gently pressing them against the center of my ribs. There was no physical wound, no lingering fever, yet every time the cold mountain wind whistled against the stained-glass windows, a sharp, phantom ache thro
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