Crown Of Lies III (Final)
Crown Of Lies- III The throne room was colder now—not from winter’s bite, nor from the failing of the great hearths that usually blazed with roaring fires. It was Lena herself who sucked the warmth from the air, her presence like a creeping frost, chilling every corner as if the sun had been eclipsed by a shadow no one else could see. The once-majestic hall had become a mausoleum of silence and gloom. Velvet drapes, once crimson and vibrant, were drawn tighter against the pale daylight. The large stained-glass windows, which usually spilled kaleidoscopic colors across the marble floor, were sealed shut with thick wooden boards. Mirrors, once plentiful and polished to a reflective gleam, were now shrouded in heavy black cloth—abandoned sentinels refusing to show her fractured image. Lena’s bare feet whispered across the cold marble, their soft sound the only movement in the vast chamber. She moved restlessly, a phantom pacing a graveyard. Her silk gown, once the symbol of her ...

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