Officially introducing the villain!
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The voice crept from the guts of the room, spilling into the corners and leaving whispers in its wake. It was the voice that laid deep in grief, pulling you back into the hole you’d been so very close to climb out of.
Daeryanna felt that voice and the thunder that followed in her bones as Queen Noctera stepped through the door to Ieran’s office, followed closely by Tennas.
She was on her feet in an instant, heart pumping as ice thrummed up the back of her neck. “Queen Noctera.”
“So you haven’t quite forgotten all of your manners, have you dearest?” Queen Noctera floated on a slithering carpet of decay and five centimeters of pure darkness, her delicate porcelain hands drifting alongside the table.
The wood withered where she touched and Daeryanna clamped down harder on the decay that wrapped around her own heart.
