THE ALTAR WE BURNED
He knew she needed this—not as a queen, not as a martyr, but as a woman shedding the weight of yesterday’s pain.
Catherine approached quietly, her footsteps crunching gently against the gravel. She carried a small satchel, the Book of Renewal tucked inside, already brimming with pages.
"She’s been out here for hours," Catherine murmured.
"She’s planting something," Michael replied. “It’s her way.”
Isabella knelt near the heart of the ruins, brushing away a pile of moss to reveal the soil beneath. From the fold of her robe, she drew out a pouch of wildflower seeds—each one gathered by hand during her journeys from village to village in the days following the revolution.
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