Chapter 46

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The smudge of starlight hovering above my head guided me. Footsteps echoing, I single-mindedly tried to keep my gaze on it. I didn’t want the unwanted distraction of the books and scrolls in their prisonshelves.

Breaths as shallow as the politicians of my court, I focused on the thread tugging at my core—the one that pulled relentlessly, taunt and needy. It synced with the direction of the floating path of stars, and so I followed both. Followed ......