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She was never free, not even when she wore silk and gold. The perfect daughter, the perfect princess-her parents molded her into their vision of order and obedience. A puppet dressed in finery, trained to smile, to bow, to never question.
Then the conqueror came.
With blood and steel, he tore through her world, slaughtering her family and taking the throne for himself. But he didn't kill her. No, he made her a slave. Stripped of her name, her title, her dignity-she is nothing now. Just another prisoner in his court, another broken thing.
But some cages can't hold the fire inside.
In the depths of her suffering, she discovers something ancient, something forbidden-magic. Painful, destructive, and wild, it is a power no one dares wield. But she is not like them. She has nothing left to lose.
And when the time comes, she will make them all burn.