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Chapter 39: Lily
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2025-11-25 20:02:00I sat frozen as Amelia's voice rang through the throne room, pronouncing a sentence I could never have imagined coming from my gentle friend's lips. Fourteen days of public punishment. Forced witnessing of suffering. Execution. The words felt alien, disconnected from the girl who had once cried when a mouse was caught in the kitchen traps. Yet her face showed no hesitation, no doubt, only a cold certainty that chilled me more than the sentence itself. The crowd murmured their approval, wolves
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