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Chapter 81 – Blooming Against the Storm

The real Princess Thyra slowly opened her eyes. For a moment, her vision blurred—she saw herself in a mirror opposite her, and where the reflection should have been stood the false Thyra. She blinked, closed her eyes, and opened them again; the figure had vanished, leaving only a scatter of petals on the floor where the fake Thyra had lain. An unexpected sorrow rose in her chest. She pressed a hand to her breast and felt her heart thudding — a heavy, insistent resonance pulling toward Shawn. The sword fragment within her was reacting to the fragments inside him.

Princess Thyra’s eyes fluttered open, breath came in short, ragged gasps, and she wondered where she was. The pain in her body trembled, weak and battered from being frozen inside the crystal, still lingering as she pushed herself upright. Her vision was hazy as she glanced around the dome, but from