THE REJECTED BETA
my father hissed as they reached the threshold.
Astance stopped, turning his head just enough to catch my father’s eye. A dark, jagged smile touched his lips, a smile that promised a winter that would never end. He didn't say a word. He didn't have to.
I watched them go. I watched Marie’s cloak disappear through the doorway, her presence leaving a hole in the room that I knew, with a sickening certainty, would never be filled. She was gone. Truly, finally gone.
Solara stood in the centre of the chamber, the sceptre glowing like a miniature sun, his form a silent, immovable sentinel standing in the wreckage of my life.
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