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.”

a powerful

alive could build a community as big as this one. But have you

“I—I…..”

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

oppose her, I do. But I fear

if she doesn’t find out?”

hide things from her.”

have succeeded in doing that more than once; perhaps

would kill you, and this wouldn’t be the first time she

and there was something about how confident he sounded that was indeed off–putting. “How many times have you been

of times, when we go

have you been outside this building

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

paid

outside… I want to see the people.”

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we will leave in two hours. We have to be

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in exactly two hours.

was 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 as I

to me; he drew the hood of my gown

attention.” He said, and I nodded,

of the guards?”

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