The guards parted as we reached the castle, careful to stay out of my path. I heard their whispered words of traitors and betrayal, and I felt their contempt. It was pouring out of them as visible as Evren’s power fell from him. I was the Starblessed that they all wanted, that they needed, but hated just the same. They thought I was their savior, but I would be no such thing. I would be their destruction.
