3/22/2026, 9:27 PM
Batu had always despised timidity. The empress’ paroxysm had heartened him to some degree in the absence of his people. Courser, he wanted to be pushed and the fire would burn inside him with the sudden desire that no harm be brought on Yuè.
But she was a leader of her people, the nomad among that count and constrained by dynastic lines no man of the steppe had ever heeded.
Vines between, wèi jūn occupies a path opposite from which she stands, filling an interval of silence with only air.
“Both well and resting, majesty.”
Languid eyes drop to wander, focusing. “Before, when I told you I would guard you. I meant it.” Even in the ways unspoken.
But she was a leader of her people, the nomad among that count and constrained by dynastic lines no man of the steppe had ever heeded.
Vines between, wèi jūn occupies a path opposite from which she stands, filling an interval of silence with only air.
“Both well and resting, majesty.”
Languid eyes drop to wander, focusing. “Before, when I told you I would guard you. I meant it.” Even in the ways unspoken.
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