[Realm: Uhorus]
[Location: Verdantis]
[Capital City]
Lucinda had thought that stepping outside the chamber would ease the pressure sitting against her chest.
In some ways, it did.
The air beyond Alyssia's room felt clearer against the lungs despite the cold climate of Verdantis. The silence outside lacked the suffocating atmosphere as well. There were no cramped walls hemming her in and no crowded room filled with truths capable of overturning everything she thought she understood.
And yet the gnawing sensation remained.
She could not tell whether it was unease, disbelief, or lingering shock from everything she had learned thus far. Perhaps it was all of them together, tangled tightly enough that she could no longer distinguish one feeling from the next.
Lucinda stood quietly within one of the courtyards belonging to the old Verdantis castle.
