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Twenty-Three was not supposed to dance.Day thirty-three after Blood Moon, ten days after Birth, Elena woke not to smell of healing bagels, not to sound of laugh, not to sound of sing, but to sound of feet, feet dancing on ice, feet that heals mostest more than sing that heals most more than laugh that heals more than feast that heals.Dance from East Wing school where gold water small table nineteen holding feast giggling singing for twenty-two family singing, dance that is black and gold then white-gold then black and gold, dance that is birthmark baby wiggling, baby blood heir wiggling, Lily queen of small chairs 6 wiggling, Zara wiggling, Julian wiggling, Victoria wiggling, dagger wiggling healing ice, black water chair wiggling healing water, gold table wiggling feast, cook 45 wiggling healing bagels.Elena held baby girl birthmark star, girl who giggled black and gold not cried, who sits 15th throne small black and gold, who was stabbed in birthmark star second stab and sealed s

Twenty-Five was not supposed to wake.Day thirty-five after Blood Moon, Elena woke not to healing bagels, not to laugh, not to sing, not to dancing feet, not to quiet sleeping, but to crack, crack tiny opening hairline which baby blood heir opened for family for four can play but allows blood too, crack that was sealed with big star first time and second time, crack that now opens again tiny because twenty-four family sleeping makes crack breathe, crack that whispers not Mara sewn mouth smiling under ice but wind, wind that is small, controlled, thinking of love.Elena held baby girl birthmark star, girl who giggled black and gold not cried, who sits 15th throne small black and gold, who was stabbed in birthmark star second stab and sealed second time alive again second time talking Mommy I beat warm fast second time because sister sealed and singing Mommy I sing warm fast second time because sister sealed as song and dancing Mommy I dance warm fast second time because sister sealed a

Elena felt Adrian's presence before she saw him. The air turned to winter.But not hungry winter. Not the older winter that lived under Adrian's skin when he was trying very hard not to kill someone. Not the soft winter of East Wing school that smelled of healing bagels and white-gold snow that never melts and night-light and wind chime in seventeen languages.This was guilty winter.She was in the Starlight Tower bathroom. The only place in the palace where twelve pure plus Julian, Victoria, the daggers, Zara, black water eighteen, gold water nineteen, and twenty-one to thirty-two families laughing singing dancing sleeping waking sealing healing drying remembering forgetting begging taking could not follow.She had locked the door. Queen of Winter, who had not locked a door since she was human.The toilet was still fixed. Thank God, thank Lily, queen of small chairs 6, who fixed it with a small star thinking of love. But it was too small now. It needed to be bigger, because twenty-fi

Elena felt Adrian's presence before she saw him. The air turned to winter.It wasn't the palace winter she had grown used to — the soft, silvered cold that lived in the East Wing, that smelled of white-gold snow and healing bagels and raven feathers. This was older winter. Hungry winter. The kind that lived under Adrian's skin when he was trying very hard not to kill someone.She was in the training yard. Or what was left of it. After the Birth — fifteen days ago, though her body still counted it in heartbeats — Sophia had insisted Elena resume light training. "Light" for Sophia meant summoning starlight while balancing on a block of ice that Adrian kept trying to make softer without being obvious.The star in her palm flickered. Black and gold, then white-gold, then black and gold again. Since the birthmark baby — her daughter with a star on her forehead who giggled in black and gold and had survived being stabbed in that same star twice — had sealed herself the second time, Elena's

Elena felt Adrian's presence before she saw him. The air turned to winter.But this time, the winter wasn't for her. It was for Victoria.The kitchen had gone quiet. Too quiet, even for a kitchen that now held twelve pure plus Julian 13th faint glow near kitchen who cheated with compass tattoo Syrin but now makes healing bagels, Victoria 14th faint glow white-gold near kitchen who stabbed pregnant belly with black ice dagger that bleeds but now makes healing bagels, dagger 16th small throne white-gold faint glow who makes healing ice, plus Zara small chair white-gold faint glow near Lily queen of small chairs 6 who fixed toilet with small star thinking of love, plus black water small chair eighteen now healing water, plus gold water small table nineteen now gold water seeping with small stars holding family holding feast that heals, plus dry twenty-eight, memory twenty-nine, forget thirty, plus baby blood heir big throne black and gold giggling white-gold, plus birthmark baby 15th sma