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Chapter 10

A large blue leather book was dropped in front of me, and I suddenly woke up from my distracted state. I looked up and met Pandora's eager gaze. With a nod, she invited me to open it.

My hands were full. Half a dozen other books lay scattered on my right, some of them smelling old and clearly ready to crumble if I tried to close them with too much force. I put the large one beside the pile.

"What's that?" I asked, arching my neck up to look at her, squinting my eyes from the bright sunlight reflecting on the library's wooden desk. Everything smelled old, of faded ink and preserved paper.

"A history book about Athelia," she said eagerly. Almost too eagerly, a little nervous, it seemed.

It was easier for me to picture an insecure girl rather than the fearless ruler I had seen. The woman who threatened to kill me for whatever had happened to Viktor, although his condition seemed to be better, drowned behind that new mood.

She was burying me in books, giving me scrolls, even parchments an
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