Linda Moore
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♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝ Carina attempted to appear unphased as she watched the Crown Prince’s departure down the garden path. Hana and Colonel Isaac approached the Duchess quickly as the rest of Bastiallano’s knights, which had been waiting outside the garden, filed in towards them. The Viscountess reached down silently to clasp Carina’s hand with an encouraging smile that did not mask the glimmer of uncertainty behind her turquoise-blue eyes. “What is it?” Carina asked as she focused…-
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♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝ It was the first time that Carina had personally visited the garden of Lily Palace. She admired the variety of lilies in full display along the neat pathways of granite stone carefully lined with peach-colored pebbles. The garden beds of flowers were arranged like an artist’s palette, ranging from yellow to blue. It was the pale blue lilies that caught the Duchess’s attention. When fully bloomed, the rare lily flower resembled a star-like snowflake. The pale, swaying…
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♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝ It was with a smile that Carina opened her ice-blue eyes and beheld the giant skeletal dragon standing below an endless sky upon the glassy black lake. Although Viktor couldn’t smile back, she felt his greeting in the gentle breath of frost that created a firm path towards her. “What is this place?” Carina asked as she took the first step onto the carpet woven of frosty vines. It was a question she had puzzled over since her first visit inside this strange realm to…
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♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝ Prologue {Part Three}: A Den of Perversion It didn’t take long after entering the slum district of Lafeara’s capital for Tarlay to pull her scarf over her mouth and nose. Her sensitivity to smell was heightened due to her partial air-witch blood. The odors which assaulted her even through the meager cover could well be described as the The road of jagged, chipped stones she followed was layered in unwashed filth with a small stream trickling through it that was not…
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♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝ Prologue {Part Two}: The Shadow of Zarus “This one is a cripple,” Madam Cricket stated bluntly, standing at a safe distance to their left. After locating the divine spark, Tarlay had summoned the slaver using a bell left hanging in the middle of the slave arena. “Came from the Hawthorne Household, which is why I purchased him at full price despite his mangled condition. An overly generous investment, but it never hurts to be in the good graces of someone as powerful…
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♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝♝ Prologue {Part One}: A Spark of Divinity Vanya traced her fingers lightly over the prickly heads of golden wheat as she followed her mentor along the dusty path through the field. The rising sun pressed like a warm sigh against the back of her neck and beads of sweat rolled lazily from behind the copper-golden curls that bounced lightly with each step. The enchanted alexandrite crystals stitched into her thick gloves reflected the light against Vanya’s dusty face and dry…
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With a bit of convincing, Joy relented to Carina’s request to leave her room and get some fresh air, but only after she had been given a bath and a fresh change of clothes with the help of two other housemaids. “I can’t have you wandering outside your room in such a state—especially if Lady Edith decides to drop by for tea later,” Joy muttered as she offered Carina a tattered old coat that luckily still fit. “Take Susan with you and stay in the backyard.” Carina nodded as she brushed the…
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“Get out! Get out! Get out!!!” Each turbulent repetition of Maura’s shriek howled against Carina’s ears. She curled herself tightly against the wardrobe with hands pressed against her ears, trapped beneath the ghost's unrelenting furry. “No, no! This was supposed to be mine! My turn to make them suffer! Why! Why are you here?!” “I-I don’t know!” Carina protested through clenched teeth. “One minute I was about to be cut open, and then—I woke up here.” Maura stared down at Carina…
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A high-pitched ring filled Carina’s ears as the haze of death slowly receded. As her consciousness surfaced from the well of numbing darkness, she sputtered, half-choking as her heart pounded awake like some frantic, wounded beast trapped inside her chest. The cold hard operating table beneath her had been replaced by a rough and lumpy surface that prickled oddly against her arms, back, and legs. Carina’s fingers curled weakly around what she guessed to be a blanket of sorts. She focused on the…
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Interlude XI: The Chosen of Ramiel “Why does Father not come to see us?” Lilaru whined petulantly as she clung to Griselda’s hand. The pair of identical sisters trailed behind their mother, Lady Davina, as they walked down the golden marble halls of their palace home. Davina turned, holding her youngest, Nesta, in one arm while her second youngest, Jericho, held her free hand tightly as he coughed into a handkerchief. Davina smiled down at her twin daughters patiently before offering the same…
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