Chapter 36 The Court Comes Calling
I should have known peace would last exactly as long as it took for someone official to notice it.
For perhaps twenty minutes—maybe thirty if Hollowgate was being generous—we sat in the library and pretended the world had narrowed down to tea, biscuits, bandages, and the impossible fact of my own un...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Summoner’s Mark
2. Chapter 2 The House of Broken Players
3. Chapter 3 Blood Exchange
4. Chapter 4 The Dollhouse of Saint Vera
5. Chapter 5 The Price of Sight
6. Chapter 6 The Pawn Clause
7. Chapter 7 Refusing Promotion
8. Chapter 8 The First Promotion Offer
9. Chapter 9 Lessons for a Pawn
10. Chapter 10 The Trial Bell
11. Chapter 11 The Market of Teeth and Vows
12. Chapter 12 The Bid Against My Name
13. Chapter 13 The Price of Collateral
14. Chapter 14 The Silver Tongue
15. Chapter 15 The Door Inside Me
16. Chapter 16 The Court of White-Gold Eyes
17. Chapter 17 The Refusal Seal
18. Chapter 18 The Eastern Throat
19. Chapter 19 Whole Names, Broken Chains
20. Chapter 20 The Trial Beneath the Glass City
21. Chapter 21 The False Mara
22. Chapter 22 The Drowned Star
23. Chapter 23 The Woman Without a Patron
24. Chapter 24 Starfire
25. Chapter 25 The Heart Sign
26. Chapter 26 The Chamber of Unclaimed Hearts
27. Chapter 27 The Crowned Version of Me
28. Chapter 28 The Shape of Love
29. Chapter 29 The Crown That Asked Sweetly
30. Chapter 30 The Crown of Hollow Mercy
31. Chapter 31 The Blade That Remembered
32. Chapter 32 Three Hours Before the Blade
33. Chapter 33 The Board of Starless Things
34. Chapter 34 The Far Side
35. Chapter 35 Unowned
36. Chapter 36 The Court Comes Calling
37. Chapter 37 The Patrons Who Watched
38. Chapter 38 Beside, Not Behind
39. Chapter 39 The Future I Choose
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