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Spring, Year 1012
Prince Varojin Auris didn’t need special treatment. He was perfectly content
being treated just like every other person in all of Helosia.
But did his father have to treat him worse?
Jin’s jaw tightened as he finished packing his suitcase. He’d just turned
eighteen a month ago. Twenty was, by law, the minimum age for
enlistment. He was supposed to have two more years before he got sent off
to his father’s skies forsaken military. But, Jin supposed, his father made the
laws. That meant he could also break them whenever he wanted.
He’d been dreading this morning for a week, and it was finally here.
“Ready to go, Your Imperial Highness?” The voice was cool, removed.
Oskar.
Jin slammed his suitcase shut and turned to his guard. “Can’t wait.”
Oskar didn’t react. He never reacted. “Would you like me to take your
luggage, Your Imperial Highness?”
“No.”
Jin grabbed the suitcase and followed Oskar out of his apartment. He’d
never needed the three rooms when he was a child, but he was going to
miss this place. He’d lived at the palace since his birth, had been welcomed
in despite the fact that he was the product of his father’s affair. He’d grown
up here. Even if he didn’t love the bright colors—especially that Aurisfamily red woven into the details of the sitting room—Jin was going to miss
it. After one last look over his shoulder, Jin closed the door behind him.
His half-siblings were all on this floor of the palace, safe and asleep in
their own apartments. They’d all said their goodbyes the night before. His
eldest brother, Apelo, had seemed appropriately sad. Kaius, older than Jin
by a mere six months, hadn’t seemed sad at all. But Eliana, Jin’s younger
sister, had actually been upset. He’d saved their goodbye for last, and he’d
made her promise not to wake up in the morning to see him off. One tearfilled goodbye in private was enough. Another one out in the open would
simply make their father angry. Emperor Aelius Auris hated tears.
The palace halls were empty, eerily quiet compared to the usual bustle of
visitors and politicians. It was just Jin and Oskar this close to sunrise.
Courtiers wouldn’t have yet made their way to the palace, and the palace
staff had their own back corridors and stairways to use.
Even outside the palace walls, the world seemed to be waiting. The cool
morning air was still. The usual faint sounds of city traffic were
nonexistent. Even the seagulls, usually soaring overhead before making
their way down to Tinale Bay, were absent.
It was like the stars knew what was about to happen.
A black car idled on the palace’s long drive, just a few dozen feet from
the bottom of the front steps. The driver, a red-haired man whose name Jin
didn’t know, stood at attention near the rear passenger door.
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