THEY PUSHED HER OFF A CLIFF… NOBODY WAS READY FOR WHAT CAME NEXT

princes. He did not announce himself. He listened more than he spoke. There was a stillness about him that people often mistook for distance, when it was really depth.

He reached the riverbank and saw a woman he did not know—barely alive, her indigo cloth torn, her hand still curled as if holding onto something unseen.

He carried her himself.

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