Chapter 11 The Word for Return
I read the letter in the alley behind Aldren's house, before we had gone twenty feet.
Mira did not stop me. She simply moved to block the alley's mouth with her body, giving me her back and a few feet of privacy in a city that had none to spare, and I broke the wax seal with fingers that were not a...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Wrong Kind of Mercy
2. Chapter 2 The Terms of Survival
3. Chapter 3 What the Prince Did Not Say
4. Chapter 4 The Dead Girl's Notes
5. Chapter 5 What Lives in the Dark
6. Chapter 6 Do Not Make a Sound
7. Chapter 7 The Shape of a Trap
8. Chapter 8 Nine Days
9. Chapter 9 The Blue Door
10. Chapter 10 What My Mother Left Behind
11. Chapter 11 The Word for Return
12. Chapter 12 A Conversation Between Equals
13. Chapter 13 The Attendant Who Waited
14. Chapter 14 What the Dead Girl Knew
15. Chapter 15 The Turnip Ledger
16. Chapter 16 The Name Aldren Would Not Say
17. Chapter 17 The Weight of a Borrowed Name
18. Chapter 18 The Language of Keepers
19. Chapter 19 Three Days
20. Chapter 20 The King Sends for His Son
21. Chapter 21 What the King Believed
22. Chapter 22 The Night We Chose
23. Chapter 23 The Missing Phrase
24. Chapter 24 The Sixth Line
25. Chapter 25 What She Chose
26. Chapter 26 The Morning After
27. Chapter 27 The Quiet Weeks
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