Chapter 39
She was not surprised when soldiers came for her that morning. She said nothing, surrendering to arrest without complaint or comment, and in silence they led her away. They didn't take her to the lowest prisons, the worst prisons, where those who most angered the king lingered for decades without seeing the sun, until they became strange, pale things no longer quite human. Her prison was one where the prisoners might have hope again of ever seeing freedom. But she wasn't fooled; the king didn't intend to release her, no more than he ever meant to free the Watcher itself. But she was still carrying his child, and the king—who was not a god, and would not rule forever, and whose beard already showed marks of gray—wanted her healthy until it came. The cell they brought her to had one narro
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