Her right arm held up her sword—her casting—which was now hidden somewhere in Celdaria. Katell’s other hand clutched a fistful of ragged stone feathers. Angels, miniature and pathetic, their faces contorted in agony, crawled up the legs of her white mare, pleading to no avail. Around her head shone a halo of light, plated in gold, kept burnished and flawless. Saint Katell the Magnificent—a sunspinner and, after the Angelic Wars, a queen. The unifier of Celdaria. Loved by an angel but strong enough to resist the temptation of the enemy. And, in the thousand years since, the children of her line
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