The Path of Queens
The woman's silhouette waited between the palace doors.
"Come, Lara Moonlight."
Her voice crossed the impossible distance between them as though she stood only a breath away.
"The Crown has waited long enough."
Lara couldn't move.
The Hidden City stretched before her in breathtaking silence.
White towers rose from the cavern floor, their crystal spires disappearing into a false sky of glittering gemstones. Silver trees lined avenues untouched for centuries. Rivers as clear as glass wound beneath graceful bridges, carrying their own pale light through the abandoned streets.
Nothing was ruined.
Nothing was broken.
That somehow made it more haunting.
It looked as though an entire civilisation had simply stood up one evening...
and never returned.
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