Securing this alliance was only part of it. The other part, the bigger part … was the message. Not to Morath. But to the world. To any potential allies watching this continent, contemplating if it was indeed a lost cause. Today her message would thunder across the realms. She was not a rebel princess, shattering enemy castles and killing kings. She was a force of nature. She was a calamity and a commander of immortal warriors of legend. And if those allies did not join with her … she wanted them to think of today, of what she would do, and wonder if they might find her on their shores, in
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