Chapter 20 - Twenty. The break of Dawn

Chapter 20: Chapter Twenty. The break of Dawn

Lucius cradled the small body in his arms. Morning light fell soft across Aurelius’s face. Around them, the whole city had gone still, no sound, no movement, nothing at all. Just that terrible quietness of a graveyard.

Then his hands moved slowly, not because he commanded them to, just muscle memory working in the absence of a command.

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