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The silence in the room was uncomfortable, and Bravan let it linger even longer when the knock came.Three times. Even intervals, with controlled pressure.Not the way someone in a hurry or nervous would knock. It was the knock of someone who had already decided to knock before his hand ever touched the wood.Bravan frowned."Tell whoever is outside to leave." His voice left no room for interpretation. "I don't want to be disturbed.""Yes, First Prince."Alex walked to the door without the slightest hint of haste and opened it.Then stopped.Bravan noticed the change in the old official's back, the slight lift of his shoulders, the way his head stopped before moving into the speaking position he had already prepared. That tiny change alone was enough to make Bravan raise his gaze toward the door.The voice from outside came in before he could see who was there."Bravan." The voice carried no title, not because it had been forgotten, but because the speaker had deliberately chosen not
Chapter 331
In the western wing of Vaelthorn Royal Palace, Bravan sat.Not the way he had sat earlier while reading his documents, with his back straight and his mind already knowing where to move next. This was different. His elbows rested on his knees, his gaze unfocused on anything in front of him, and an expression appeared on his face that had never shown itself when anyone else was in the room.Bitter.Not anger. Not panic. Something deeper than either, the feeling of someone who had spent a very long time building something with painstaking care, only to watch a variable that had never once entered his calculations transform the entire structure into something that could no longer be maintained in the same way.Lyris would win.The words were not a conclusion that needed further consideration. It was already settled. It had been there from the moment he saw Lein flying through the sky with four Auranveil corpses behind him, and nothing had changed since then except that he had now been sit
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Lyris took longer than usual to answer.Not because she had no answer, but because she had only just finished processing an amount of information that was too overwhelming to arrive all at once, and she needed one more second to make sure that what came out of her mouth was a decision rather than a reaction."Keep an eye on him." Her voice carried the composed layer she had deliberately chosen to put back in place. "I'm certain he won't dare touch us after this. He's seen for himself that there are things he cannot touch when they're on our side."Her gaze never left Lein."But I also know he won't give up that easily. Carath isn't someone who accepts defeat quietly. He'll find another way, and I need to know what he chooses before that plan has fully taken shape."She turned to Miran."That's your task."Miran nodded. Once, firmly, like someone who had already accepted the order and begun figuring out how to carry it out before the nod had even finished."As Your Highness wishes."Me
Chapter 329
Lein descended.Not like someone landing after a long flight. There was no moment of adjustment, no step needed to find his balance. His feet touched the ground of the courtyard in front of Lyris's wing the same way someone would step down from one stair to the next.Behind him, the four Auranveil corpses descended at the same time, one after another leaving the sky until all four were arranged neatly across the courtyard.Two spiritual stones floated between them, their light still shifting within their surfaces, gold and rainbow hues constantly changing.The door to Lyris's wing opened.Lyris came out first, followed by Miran, then the three officials, then the soldiers and servants, with Ryn and Sael among them. They all emerged in a manner that showed they had seen the four silhouettes from inside long before Lein landed and had already prepared themselves for the worst possible outcome.What they found, however, was not the worst possible outcome.But it was not something easier
Chapter 328
The window on the western side of the room overlooked the sky at a wide enough angle, and the daylight that usually poured through it suddenly changed.It did not go dark, but dimmed in a way that could only happen when something enormous passed between the sun and the window.Bravan turned.The elderly official before him turned as well.Outside the window, four silhouettes hovered in the sky above Vaelthorn Royal Palace.Their wings, even without beating, dominated their entire silhouettes from side to side. Their bodies were so disproportionately large compared to what a terrestrial creature should have been that their presence in the air seemed impossible without something extraordinary supporting them from below.The elderly official recognized their forms one second after Bravan did, and the moment he did, his legs chose the floor before his mind could issue any command."Four Auranveil." His voice came from the floor, half-collapsed, both hands already raised in front of his fa
Chapter 327
In the western wing of Vaelthorn Royal Palace, Bravan sat at his desk.Before him were three stacks of documents, each arranged according to an order he had determined himself: reports from territories that had already pledged their allegiance, drafts of agreements that had yet to be fully negotiated, and a thinner file than the others that had nevertheless been read more than everything else on his desk. It contained the names and positions of those who had yet to choose a side and could still be influenced before the line between too late and not too late disappeared.Bravan read the way a man did not merely read words, but everything hidden behind them—the implications, the intentions, the gaps between what was written and what was meant.Then came a knock at the door.Bravan did not immediately raise his head. The way the door was knocked was enough for him to read it: faster than usual, with an uneven rhythm, the kind of knock made by someone who needed to enter but also needed o
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