Chapter 1 · free to read
The empress died at the thirty-seventh banquet. I know, because I was the one dying.
Thirty-seven times she had watched the cup come round. This was the first time she had reached it still knowing why.
Sixty seconds. That is all the crown gives me. But sixty seconds, spent thirty-seven times, is a very long time to learn a room.
Loop thirty-eight. The goblet is still full. Everyone is still smiling.
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