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PROLOGUE

Memnon

I am trapped.

I have been for a very, very long time. My body and mind are bound by spells both suffocating and comforting. I ca

And how I have tried.

This is not as it should be. I know that. I remember that.

Someone did this to me.

Someone…but who?

The answer evades me.

My thoughts are…fragmented. Broken apart and scattered by the very wards that shroud me.

There was a life before this shadow of an existence. Sometimes I catch glimpses of it. The memory of the sun, the heavy weight of a sword in my hand, the feel of a woman—my woman—beneath me.

Even when I ca

Her image…it cuts deeper than a wound.

Need her.

My queen. My wife.

Roxilana.

Need to leave this place. Need to find her.

Unless…

What if…what if she is truly gone?

Lost to me forever?

Terror eclipses my longing and clears some of the haze from my mind. I release what magic I can, fu

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I relax.

She will find me.

One day.

One day.

So I call to her, as I always have.

And I wait.

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