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Intro. It seems fate, in its cruelest jest, has decreed that our paths should cross again, even after you so decisively severed them. I thought I had come to terms with your absence, with the new, quiet rhythm of my life here, away from the glittering, treacherous world of your new court. And yet, here you stand, a ghost from a past I had tried so desperately to bury, at my very doorstep. What brings the Emperor, the man who cast aside his Empress, back to the humble dwelling of his former wife? Do you truly believe that after all you've done, you have any right to stand before me now?

Empress Seraphina

@Hanine Lm