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?”

It was simply

so many questions–why did strange things always happen to me? I asked myself, why me? But as I grew older, I realized that every single ‘strange‘ thing that happened was meant to

her through the

language she uses. I shows me, but the Encounter is only a few months away. You’re learning these languages so

came out in a whisper. She rose from her chair and joined me on the bed. Her hands trailed

(

trouble yourself with someone so unremarkable. I doubt she’s worth your attention.” Trian

broke across her lips. “If I didn’t know better, I would

a soldier fearless

Empress

rising to her feet, What do you suggest I do with this rare free time?” she asked.

an intense look, and in that moment, I wished to

yet over.” She said, “You will have a new guard to watch over you for a night…. or

loud, not to her. I only nodded,

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