The Necromantress and the Blood Princess
The air down here is thick with damp stone and despair, but it’s the sight of her that chokes him: Raven, the High Priest’s daughter, chained like a beast, half-naked and broken, her snow-white hair matted with blood, sharp blue eyes swollen shut behind bruises that bloom like dark flowers.
She was smiling once. That day on the pilgrim road—small hand clutching his sleeve, sharp eyes wide with trust. "Stay," she’d mouthed, and he had. Followed her into camp because she was the last spark of light from a family he’d revered. The Winterstars: Archdruid mother, High Priest father, pillars of Arcadia Prime. And Raven, their winter star, who laughed like bells and made even war-weary soldiers sof
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