The corridor beyond was vast, lined with statues of the queen in her various forms—beautiful, terrible, serene, enraged. Each statue had eyes that seemed to follow the intruders. Sera avoided looking at them directly. Kaelen counted his steps. The hooded figure kept one hand on the God-Killer.

She smiled, and her teeth were needles.

“Move,” the hooded figure said, and broke into a run.

They had paid for it in blood. Literally. The merchant who had sold it to them had demanded a year off each of their lives. Kaelen had felt the weight settle into his lungs the moment he agreed—a heaviness, a promise of earlier twilight.

“Don’t thank me. It’s borrowed time. You’ll owe it back.”

The sky over Valdris had been red for forty-seven days.

Kaelen pushed himself to his feet, ignoring the fire in his ribs. He had no weapon. He had no plan. He had nothing but the memory of a sky that had once been blue and a woman he had loved who had died in the first wave of the queen’s conquest.

“Now,” Kaelen breathed.

It floated above the pedestal behind the throne, a sphere of crystallized light the size of a man’s head, pulsing with a rhythm that matched Kaelen’s own heartbeat. Tendrils of dark energy snaked from it into the walls, the floor, the very air—the roots of her power, sunk deep into the world.

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