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

have you ever thought about how

“I—I…..”

many times. I wanted to run away, but it was impossible; Empress Julia was going to find me, and when

her, I do. But I fear what

doesn’t find

will; you cannot hide things from her.”

succeeded in doing that more than once;

wouldn’t be the first time she did something as

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

when we go to

this building just to explore on your own?”

never. I could go nowhere

paid dearly.

outside… I

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

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back in

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

he drew the hood

He said, and I nodded, pulling the hood lower to cover

guards?” I asked.

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