Chapter Sixty Nine

I knew Julia was going to pay me a visit–I had anticipated it. But as the hours passed, I began to hope I had been pardoned. That hope shattered when I awoke from my slumber to find her seated in the chair facing me.

“Empress.” I acknowledged, about to rise to my feet.

“There would be no need for that,” she says.

I looked up to see Trian standing there, his gaze hard.

“I’m so sorry; I disrespected the Empress, but I didn’t mean to.”

“I hear you are tired of learning.”

“I never said that.”

“Are you calling her a liar?”

not. It

fail to see the use in learning more.” She quoted the very words I had spoken. “When I was little, I had so many questions–why did strange things

the signs

god of light speaks, but no one knows the exact language she uses. I shows me, but the Encounter is only a few months away. You’re learning these

chair and joined me on the bed. Her hands trailed down my cheeks and lower to my collar, and then she loosened my nightgown. My

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choose to trouble yourself with someone so unremarkable. I doubt

broke across her lips. “If I didn’t know better, I would say you are trying to protect her.” Empress Julia said.

fearless enough to speak directly to the like she was just

Empress

to her feet, What do you suggest I do with this rare free time?” she asked. She seemed to be…

and in that moment, I wished to be in Julia’s position;

“This is not yet over.” She said, “You will have

say that out loud, not to her. I

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