The door creaked open sometime near dawn, light spilling into the cell and stinging my eyes after hours in the dark."Get up," Ferris said, his voice flat, tired. "You're needed in the kitchen."I blinked up at him, my body stiff from the cold stone floor, my legs barely able to hold me as I pushed myself upright. "So that's it? I'm just... let out?""Seems the item turned up," he said, not quite meeting my eyes. "Wasn't you after all."Relief should have flooded through me, but it didn't. Just a hollow kind of exhaustion, and a question that sat heavy in my chest. If it wasn't me, then who had it been? And why had no one bothered to apologize for locking a girl in a freezing cell over a mistake?"You're wanted with the other maids," Ferris continued, stepping aside to let me pass. "Big day today. It's the coronation so get moving."I nodded, too tired to argue, and made my way up the narrow stairs on legs that still trembled from cold and hunger. I hadn't even tasted water since the
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