Forbidden by the Triplet Alphas
Seven days of hoping that we had finally earned a future without fear, without loss, without war.
On the eighth day, the scouts returned.
Their faces were pale, their horses lathered with sweat, their eyes wide with a fear I had not seen since the king's army marched from the mountains. Brenna led them, her dark hair wild and tangled, her hands trembling on the reins, her knuckles white. She dismounted before her horse stopped, her boots sliding on the gravel, and I saw that her sword was drawn, her blade stained with something black that smoked in the evening air.
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