Water pinged and tapped hard against the precious rectangles of leaded glass, making it difficult to look westward over the manicured, luxurious palace grounds. From the furthest corner of his rain-pelted windows, Demetrius Alexandre Tullius III, the eleven year old Dauphin, was squinting specifically at the far western gate, King’s Highway, and wooded farmlands beyond the high walls of the Swan Palace. The luxurious softness of velvet curtains did nothing for his anxiety today.
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