Thalia's Ashen Fate
my mother continued, "and prepared a grand, cold wedding. The entire kingdom gathered to see the beautiful, mysterious woman who would be their queen. She walked down the aisle toward the king..."
But here, her voice began to fray. The soft, melodic cadence warped, stretching thin and echoing as if from the end of a long, dark tunnel. The king in my mind twisted, his face curdling into a nightmare. A jagged scar cleaved his left cheek. His eyes, once imagined as handsome, were now nearly white, a sliver of icy, predatory blue seeming to pierce right through me.
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