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

community as big as this one. But have you ever thought

“I—I…..”

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

But I fear what she will do to me when

doesn’t find out?”

hide things from

than once; perhaps I will try my luck once again.”

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

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

times, when we go to have

you been outside this building just to explore on

silent, because the answer was never. I could go nowhere without

I paid dearly.

want to go outside… I want

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

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back in

this, and yet I wanted to leave this place so bad, even

to me; he drew the hood of my gown

said, and I nodded,

guards?” I

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