I couldn't breathe.The photograph sat frozen on my phone screen, and my fingers had gone so rigid around it that my knuckles ached. Two minutes ago I'd been laughing, half-tangled in Kael's arms on the study couch, teasing him about Daniel's terrible taste in ties. Then the message had chimed, and everything good in the room had died at once."Serena?"I looked at him.His expression shifted from sleepy amusement to something sharper — the particular stillness he gets right before deciding whether a situation calls for diplomacy or violence."What happened?"I turned the phone toward him without a word.He looked. And then his face did something I'd never seen it do before — not the guarded-still of a man hiding something, not the amused-still of a man pretending not to be affected by me. This was the stillness of someone watching the ground open beneath his own feet."Kael. Say something. You're scaring me more than the photo is.""Give me a second.""You don't get a second. I didn'

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I didn't remember the drive to the council archive. One moment, I was standing in the study with Kael's kiss still warm on my palm, the next I was pushing through the heavy oak doors, my heart slamming against my ribs hard enough to hurt.Nadia was waiting inside, three folders fanned across the long table like a woman bracing for battle. She looked up, and whatever composed, businesslike mask she usually wore had cracked at the edges."You look terrible," she said."Thank you. I've had a night.""I meant emotionally, Serena, not the dress. The dress is fine. The dress is doing better than you are.""That's marginally more comforting, and also somehow not comforting at all."She almost smiled — gone as fast as it appeared — before she actually looked at my face and the humor drained out of her entirely. "What happened?"I set my phone on the table without a word. The photograph glowed up at both of us — the little girl's scarred face, an accusation with no one to answer for it yet.Na

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