The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 116

Chapter 116

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Morgan.

I gasped, opening my eyes and looked up at Anya who looked down at me with concern.

"Lady Morgan, are you all right?"

back

The memory began to dissolve, the sounds retreated back into Pyra's memories, but I could shake the image of Siora's face contorted in shock. I could still smell the blood in the air. Her lifeless body ripped apart and thrown everywhere as the war raged on around her.

I swallowed and forced a smile, nodding. My heart pounding, tears stinging my eyes.

"Sorry, I just... had a vision, I think."

Anya's eyes widened. "You're a seer, Lady Morgan?"

I shook my head. "Not exactly."

I took a deep breath and stood. "Why don't you rest for a little while longer? We'll reconvene about this council business closer to lunch."

She nodded with a thankful murmur before lying back down. Pyra was oddly still and quiet in the back of my mind.

"Do you know where Tsuneo is?"

Haruka smiled. "Second lesson: listen to the palace.

I chuckled, nodding, feeling silly. I reached out, searching for him, when I found him growling and pacing in his office. He looked up as if he could feel me searching for him, then he vanished. "You needed me?"

I turned, gasping as he appeared behind me.

could

He chuckled. "Recently."

said and took his hand. "Could we speak privately for a

drifted through the

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still crackling softly in the hearth. Tsuneo guided me

his voice grounding me in the present,

I murmured, my voice barely audible. "Pyra's daughter... Siora. She looked

his eyes searching mine for answers.

blinked it

don't you start

nodded, trying to make sense of what I had seen. "Anya looks exactly like her. I saw... I saw her death.

I eyed him.

away, his expression blank for a moment before he clenched his

head. "We can talk at length about... the last time there was a Convening of the Celestial Compass and the hell that broke out,

if she meant to show it

my hands. I looked at my hands. The weight of Pyra's loss settled heavily on me, but along with it came a deep understanding-of her pain, her silence, and the fire that burned inside her. Pyra had lost so much in that war, and now, as we faced the Convening of

didn't understand was this low-level and persistent sense of fear. What

in her private parlor, laughing over tea and snacks. There was a stack

everything

"Sorry, I

d

say. Pyra still wasn't speaking to

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will be

and worry rushed through me, but I held it back. Anya had been through a lot, she had suffered greatly, but she was strong. Pyra's desire to coddle her was understandable, but

much had already been taken from her. I sat

"Sounds great."

Haruka

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