Chapter 26
The castle had grown quieter as evening settled over it, though quiet here never meant empty. Somewhere beyond the corridor windows, Lexi could hear the distant clang of metal from the training grounds, and every so often a servant hurried past carrying something that apparently couldn't wait until morning. She had no particular destination in mind when she left her room. The conversation on the overlook lingered stubbornly in her thoughts, resurfacing whenever she tried to focus on something else. It wasn't the prophecy that kept returning. Or the dragon blood. Or even the enemies she apparently had without ever meeting them. It was Elyra. A woman who had spent eighteen years existing only as an absence. The realization followed her through a maze of corridors she still didn't know w
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