The President's Mate
Others just stared back, their expressions unreadable, heavy, like they were weighing me in silence.
I swallowed and looked away, forcing my steps to match Fara’s steady pace.
The corridor opened into a vast hall, and for a moment, I forgot the soldiers, the tension, everything.
In the middle, a statue—tall, graceful, so exquisitely made that she looked alive. A woman, long-limbed and impossibly beautiful, her head crowned with a circle moon and twin crescents arched like horns. In her hand, she held what looked like a staff, the tip sculpted into fire frozen in stone.
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