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'Smile, Al... smile and good things will follow,' is what Selene remembers being her last words when she's yanked into a sprawling room carpeted with velvet and marble pillars reaching up to the high ceiling.
A few meters away from her towers a tall blonde with calculating ferocity briefly bleeding through her lilac eyes.
Supposedly, she's been summoned by the future Queen to be her lady-in-waiting.
Perhaps the world should let her grieve first.
[[Part 3 of 'death and I, we go hand in hand']]
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