Chapter 9 · free to read
They took me to a study and not to a throne room. That was the first true thing the palace ever told me about the Emperor.
A regent holds power because a throne is empty. This throne was not empty. It was occupied by somebody nobody had ever shown where the door was.
The audience had lasted a quarter of an hour. The palace knew about it before it ended.
She had let us grow for nine months the way a careful woman lets a thing grow. That night she came out of the house with the knife.
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