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The keys make no sound as they move. That's the first thing the servants notice when they see

her gliding through the corridors of the ancient castle. A ring of

heavy iron hangs at her waist, the kind that open dungeons and treasury vaults and rooms that

have been sealed for centuries. They should clatter with every step, announce her presence like

chains dragging across stone, but they move in perfect silence, as

if the metal itself has forgotten how to sing.

She appears without warning in the hour before dawn, when the castle sleeps deepest and

the fires have burned low.

A woman dressed in flowing white that seems to catch a light that isn't there.

Her face hidden behind a veil that moves in a breeze no one else can feel. She carries

herself with the bearing of nobility, shoulders straight, head held high, but there's something wrong in the way she moves, as if she's forgotten the weight that flesh should carry.

The guards see her first, standing motionless at the end of a hallway that stretches into darkness.

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