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2025-06-29 17:38:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Tottering through the corridors, using her future sight to avoid maids and manservants, Bea went searching for the man who was going to take her to Amière.
It was a knight—a member of the White Knights, specifically. Long before she’d ever kissed her mother’s forehead good night, Bea...
2025-06-29 17:37:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun was starting to set in Calum. Though there was still light in the day, Ciel and Bea often settled for bed early. Today, especially, Ciel needed the extra rest. She’d been pushing herself for days, and they still had a long journey home tomorrow.
A soft knock came at the door...
2025-06-26 08:35:23 +0000 UTC View PostResting in Ailn’s empty suite, Ciel watched over Bea as she slept. Though she was morosely tired from the stress and exertion of the last three days, she’d only been given new worries.
Ciel had spent her entire adult life trying to forget Amière. Now Sigurd—the first and only m...
2025-06-24 10:57:39 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach, Ailn pressed the dial.
‘So. You reveal your true colors at last.’
It was the second princess, Isolde. Her cadence was breathless, her voice vibrated with glee.
‘All of us were mistaken, it seem...
2025-06-22 12:12:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe journey to Calum had taken longer than Ciel could bear. Every moment away from Bea sent her mind racing toward the worst. Eating was a struggle. Sleep had been impossible.
Neither the walk to Smercraig, nor the ride to Calum had been physically easy.
With Gorwin’s he...
2025-06-19 14:33:00 +0000 UTC View PostTen years ago, the village of Kor was a mere supplier. It produced charcoal, and had only one buyer. Seven years ago, an event that should have brought ruin proved an unexpected blessing—at least, for the people of the village.
Kor was surrounded by ash trees, woods whittled down fr...
2025-06-17 18:17:41 +0000 UTC View PostThough Sigurd had yet to reach the city of Amière, he was well already deep within the hinterlands of the old Blanc domain.
It was not a place he would choose to be of his own accord. Yet he was drawn here by necessity—coerced by a threat uttered through the echo stone he now held in his...
2025-06-15 17:10:35 +0000 UTC View PostAs the imperial siblings met with Kylian privately, Ashton took the opportunity to attend to his own affairs—or rather, those of ark-Chelon.
He was checking on his adoptive father, Cassian. The duke had been bedridden for years now, and sometimes even the family’s retainers seemed to fo...
2025-06-12 12:53:27 +0000 UTC View PostAiln’s mind blanked. Mirek was adopted into House ark-Chelon? Then that meant… He pinched the bridge of his nose with a groan. “Mirek Blanc is Ashton?”
That was the last name he wanted to hear right now.
Ashton was a puzzle to Ailn—the annoying kind, and one h...
2025-06-10 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“This still strikes me as dubious,” Camille said, as she led Ailn—carrying Bea—through the Gren estate’s terraced pathways and flowering archways. “However, for all your faults as a duke, I have yet to know you to be a liar.”
Then, under her breath, she added, "…Discounting ...
2025-06-08 14:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Kylian negotiated with the imperial family, and Ailn aided Bea in her desperate effort to save her father, a lone knight commander was riding deep into the Singing Mountains—his pace brisk, his visage grim.
He’d departed from Varant just three days prior, traveling as swiftly as h...
2025-06-05 14:39:12 +0000 UTC View PostIf Kylian had to describe Isolde ryu-Genis in one word, it would be “menacing.” Across the empire, it was said that there were none who embodied the imperial lineage quite like she did. Her reputation as a warmonger had even reached Varant.
The Radoscht Empire spanned the entire c...
2025-06-03 13:28:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, a rather shocking letter arrived for Kylian, delivered by a retainer of House ark-Chelon. It was from Ailn.
Kylian was certain he understood how Ailn operated by this point. In the short time they’d known each other, they’d shared more than a number of adventures—and...
2025-06-01 13:38:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! I just realized I posted this to the discord but never to here. Here's the cover for volume 3! I also know I said at one point the title for the arc was tentatively "Sorry, Just Missed You" but it ended up being changed. For everyone reading on the Patreon, thank you, and I hope you enjoy TR...
2025-05-29 17:44:23 +0000 UTC View PostBea’s past life was a short one.
Diagnosed with a life-limiting medical condition at a young age, she slowly came to understand the reality of her prognosis. With proper care, her chances of reaching adulthood were high. And until her disease reached its late stages, she could likel...
2025-05-29 15:54:31 +0000 UTC View Post