“I should go in and rest as well. That needless encounter has left me tired.”
The mood in the place the Empress Consort had swept through could not be revived. Ines, too, her back stiff with tension from the unexpected meeting, bowed to the imperial consort's words that they would see each other again, and settled into the carriage.
Only after the carriage, gathering speed in time with the clatter of hooves, had passed the entrance of the imperial castle did the tension ease and weariness wash over her.
She had never imagined she would meet the Empress Consort so suddenly.
‘Won't ill fortune come one day, if good things go on…?’
Goosebumps rose on Ines's arms and back. The Empress Consort, as she said it, had worn the same gentle smile she had worn in the North Tower, watching Ines's death.…
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