Chapter Sixty

Chapter Sixty

About five minutes passed, and there was still no sign of her.

“Empress!” I called out. “Empress…‘

Just then, she broke through the surface. Her face looked different–youthful. She had entered the pool looking to be in her forties, but when she emerged, she appeared to be in her late twenties.

“Empress, you look…”

“Beautiful, magnificent… I know.”

“How?”

“The water, many believe the god of light once bathed in these waters; it’s called the Lake of Youth–It was once bigger than this, but, well, this is all that remains of it.”

She put on her clothes.

“It was like time had reversed, and she was given her youth again.” I said to Trian when we were back in my room.

“It seems to me that you would like to take a dip in the Lake of Youth one day.”

“Of course, not… the Empress would never let me.”

“You fear the Empress like she is a god.”

is a

build a community as big as this one. But have you ever

“I—I…..”

but it was impossible; Empress Julia was going to find me, and when she does… she

do. But I fear what she will

if she doesn’t find out?”

will; you cannot hide

have succeeded in doing that more than once; perhaps I will try my luck once again.”

and this wouldn’t be the first time she did

there was something about how confident

we

many times have you been outside this building

the answer was never. I could go nowhere without the Empress’s permission; the one time I

paid

I want to see the

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I will take you outside. Get ready; we will leave in two hours. We have to be back

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back in exactly two hours.

this, and yet I wanted to leave this place so bad, even if it was just for a few hours. I

he drew the hood of my gown

attention.” He said, and I nodded, pulling the hood

the guards?” I

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