The SoulBorn Queen
My dressing gown was of the finest silk, edged with lace, simple and exquisite enough that I ran a finger along the lapels.
The few stories I’d heard had been wrong, or five hundred years of separation had muddled them. Yes, I was still prey, still born weak and useless compared to them, but this place was … peaceful. Calm. Unless that was an illusion, too, and the loophole in the Treaty was a lie—a trick to set me at ease before they destroyed me.
The High Wiz liked to play with their food. The door creaked, and Alis returned—a bundle of clothing in her hands. She lifted a sodden grayish shirt.