Chapter 11: Sweetness and Venom

Chapter 11: Sweetness and Venom

[Silthara Palace — the Inner Baths — Later That Morning]

Steam veiled the vast inner bath, rising in pale curtains that softened the world to stone and breath. White walls curved high above, smooth and ancient, carved with serpents in endless procession—their bodies winding into one another as if guarding the space from all that was unworthy.

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