Chapter 121

Talia hurried on through the remote foothills, hoping distance would obscure her trail from the queen's riders. But despite the immediate danger receding, she felt lingering unease over her rift with Leonard.

In their brief reconciliation, she had glimpsed the possibility of temperance overcoming his ingrained militancy. But the riders' sudden assault had ripped open old wounds, and Leonard had retreated back into hatred and vengeance. Talia feared the bloodshed he might cause if his crusader instincts were unleashed once more.

Yet she could not deny the essential truth in his view that the queen would keep hounding them to the end. Talia's magics could conceal her for a time, but she was only one fugitive. How long could even a scattered order survive if deemed a threat to the crown?

The sinking sun stretched Talia's shadow behind her as she trekked onward, a dark echo of her own conflicted principles. Perhaps she had been selfish, risking Leonard's life again in pursuit of her ideal
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