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- Authors: Casey Blair
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Liris had a secret.
If she were truly the dutiful apprentice she was supposed to be, if she
believed in her elders’ judgment no matter what it cost her, she probably
wouldn’t have a secret. So the fact that she did at all was probably a test
she’d failed.
Since the very first time she’d failed as a child, she’d been as careful as
she could not to fail again. Yet here Liris still was: alone, dragging herself
down this same corridor again and again.
Once upon a time, every summons had set her heart to pounding, the
honor of having been chosen impressing itself on her from the very walls.
The path she trudged through now was a far cry from the usual austerity her
people lived with. A tribute to Serenthuar’s renowned craftsmanship, the
corridor was draped in silk tapestries with intricately embroidered patterns
and showcased the unique shaped glass no other realm could match.
A faded tribute. No outsiders had darkened these halls in months, and so
they remained dark: the glory of days past gathering dust, glimpsed only in
shadows by the light of the candle Liris carried with her.
They were supposed to be Serenthuar’s pride, but just like Liris they’d
been left to molder.
Once, Liris had answered every summons expecting to at last be given
the duty she’d trained all her life for.
Now, the walls pressed in on her as she breathed the ossified air and did
her best to look only down at her feet.
Not at the symbols of the Serenthuar she would never escape.
Not toward the future she’d never be allowed to reach for.
And while no one else cared, at least Liris would know she had not
faltered. She’d done everything right that it was possible to do.
At least she would have that.
Along with the twisted, painful hope inside her that she no longer
believed but couldn’t quite let die in case maybe, finally, it was her time.
It only felt like it had taken forever to arrive at the vibrant, shimmering
mosaic glass chamber at the center of the Citadel, a crowning achievement
of a Serenthuar craftsmanship Liris didn’t know what spells made it
possible for a room made of glass on all sides to stand in a sandstone castle;
spellcraft was the only discipline she expressly wasn’t allowed to study.
She entered with the traditional bow she’d perfected as a toddler.
“You may rise, Candidate Liris,” Elder Omaqil informed her in the same
measured tone she’d only once heard him deviate from. The shadows and
folds of his many wrinkles stood out against the colorful glass backdrop,
and sweat glistened on his bald head.
Then another man echoed, “Candidate? A candidate is not what I was
promised, Honored Elder.”
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