thirty-four
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It's like staring at a before and after picture.
To the right were old women with varying lengths of stark white hair and wrinkles so deep they could fold into themselves. The Elders. The oldest group of women in the Kingdom, probably older than the buildings we passed on the way here. There were eight of them now but I knew enough about them to know that there were more.
To my left, were four stunning young women, probably in their early twenties. The only similar attribute they share was the crescent moon tattoo on the centre of their foreheads above their brows. They also wore shimmering black dresses that wrapped around their bodies provocatively and glinted off the light from the hanging chandelier. The Priestesses, I presumed. The ones Maddie mentioned before shovi
