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As the ht one, deovernors, ehosts It was too close to the Lakelander border for proper Silvers to live, even though the fighting was contained to the boh few Silvers died, despite the Reds dying by the thousands Conscripted froht My kingdons every conscription renewal, never stopping the cycle, only co about the cra with a single tooth, bashing a pair of wooden blocks together He will not be the sahtroearing ar them into a curtain of smoke He followed and never returned

With dark circles beneath her eyes, she wrote ould become the second-to-last entry into her diary The words seee She had not slept in three days, unable to face another drea

The Calores are children of fire, as strong and destructive as their flame, but Cal will not be like the others before Fire can destroy, fire can kill, but it can also create Forest burned in the suer than before Cal’s flauns will quiet, the smoke will clear, and the soldiers, Red and Silver both, will co peace He will not die fighting He will not HE WILL NOT

Tibe was gone, at Fort Patriot in Harbor Bay But Arven stood just outside her door, his presence for can touchthe downy hair on Cal’s head The only person in my head is me

The nurse who caitatedIt was not her place

Another night came and went No sleep, but one last entry in Coriane’s diary She had drawn flowers around each word--nolia blossoms

The only person in ed him, as you feared it would The fire is in him, the fire that will burn all the world And it is in your son, in the prince ill never change his blood and will never sit a throne

The only person in ed is you You are still the little girl in a dusty roootten, unwanted, out of place You are queen of everything,who loves you, and still you cannot find it in yourself to s

Still you are empty

The only person in your head is you

And she is no one of any i, a maid found her bridal crown broken on the floor, an explosion of pearls and twisted gold There was silver on it, blood dark fro hours

And her bathwater was black with it

The diary ended unfinished, unseen by any who deserved to read it

Only Elara saw its pages, and the slow unraveling of the woman inside

She destroyed the book like she destroyed Coriane

And she drea