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Elidraena followed behind without hesitation. Her steps were kept light, clearly unbothered by the rough climb, sea-salt still drying on her hair and skin as she trailed a little too closely behind him in a quiet, unsettling way that living in the Tower had taught her. She asked him questions-...

Elide tilted her head, eyes narrowing slightly. Not in suspicion, but amusement. Tydeus, he said. She said nothing and only stared at him as though weighing his name against the ones whispered in the Tower's shadowed corridors. Her aunt called him many things. None of them Tydeus. Still she...

She stared at him, face unmoved, unflinching. The wind tugged at her coat, salt stinging her lips, but she made no effort to break the silence he left in his wake. Others would have bowed by now, lowered their heads, spoken her name with tight-throated reverence. Even if they had once spat it...

A ship groaned as it settled against the dock, the wood and rope straining, protesting her arrival. Elidraena stepped onto solid ground with the surety of someone who had burned every single bridge along the pathway to here. Alliria. The scent of brine and rot clung to the harbor, thick as the...