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 powerful woman.”

this one. But have you ever thought about how exciting it would be to go against her, even once?”

“I—I…..”

course, I’ve thought about it so many times. I wanted to run away, but it was impossible; Empress Julia was going to find me,

I do. But I fear what she will do to me when she finds out.”

if she doesn’t find

will; you cannot hide things from her.”

more than once; perhaps

kill you, and this wouldn’t be the first time she did something as cruel.”

thing on Julia’s mind right now.” He said, and there was something about how confident he sounded that was

couple of times, when we go

outside this building just to explore on

could go nowhere without the

paid dearly.

go outside… I

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leave in two hours. We have to be back

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in exactly two hours.

all sweaty. I shouldn’t be doing this, and yet I wanted to leave this place so bad, even if it was just for a few hours. I was in a long black gown

drew the hood of my gown over my

and I nodded, pulling the

guards?” I

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