Chapter 48 The Palace and the Waiting Thing
The King had ruled for seven years without an empress, and the court had long since stopped pretending this was a temporary situation that would resolve itself.
In the early years, there had been whispers, careful and deniable, the kind of speculation that stopped when the wrong person entered the ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Fall
2. Chapter 2 Rebirth
3. Chapter 3 The Weight of Shadows
4. Chapter 4 Her Real Name
5. Chapter 5 The Trap, The Beginning
6. Chapter 6 His Sacrifice
7. Chapter 7 Reunion
8. Chapter 8 His True Identity
9. Chapter 9 Crown
10. Chapter 10 Her Wish
11. Chapter 11 Her Legacy
12. Chapter 12 The Countdown begin
13. Chapter 13 Prince in name
14. Chapter 14 The Hunger Above and Below
15. Chapter 15 The Ashworth Gambit
16. Chapter 16 The Depths of Silence
17. Chapter 17 The Serpent's Puppet
18. Chapter 18 The Serpent's Trap
19. Chapter 19 Her Returns
20. Chapter 20 A Seer Awakens
21. Chapter 21 A Crown Ascending
22. Chapter 22 The Scholar's Choice
23. Chapter 23 The Road North
24. Chapter 24 The Weight of Stone
25. Chapter 25 The Anchor's Choice
26. Chapter 26 The Waiting
27. Chapter 27 The Eastern Secret
28. Chapter 28 The Watcher's Choice
29. Chapter 29 The Roads Diverge
30. Chapter 30 The Estate in the Hills
31. Chapter 31 The Weight of Evidence
32. Chapter 32 The Thaw
33. Chapter 33 The Thing in the Hills
34. Chapter 34 The Descent
35. Chapter 35 The Road Home
36. Chapter 36 The Turn of Seasons
37. Chapter 37 The First Summer
38. Chapter 38 The Eastern Watch
39. Chapter 39 What Holds
40. Chapter 40 The First Crack
41. Chapter 41 What The Dark Wants
42. Chapter 42 The Watcher & The Hunger — A Reader's Guide
43. Chapter 43 Blood and Root
44. Chapter 44 What We Plant in the Dark
45. Chapter 45 The Deepest Part
46. Chapter 46 What We Made
47. Chapter 47 Roots
48. Chapter 48 The Palace and the Waiting Thing
49. Chapter 49 What Lives Below
50. Chapter 50 Below the Bedrock
51. Chapter 51 The Marking
52. Chapter 52 The Saint's Inheritance
53. Chapter 53 The Saint Walks Among Us
54. Chapter 54 The Work That Doesn't End
55. Chapter 55 The Absence of Failure
56. Chapter 56 The Choice
57. Chapter 57 The North
58. Chapter 58 The Saint
59. Chapter 59 The Future
60. Chapter 60 A Light in the East
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