Alchemised

A medical uniform. “Perhaps an example is in order.” The woman’s hand pressed against Helena’s neck. In the darkness, thick with blood, with little torchlight and too many bodies in a cramped cage, she’d barely been able to make them out. If the new Emperor had obtained his throne selling something of imperial value, that was a violation of his own trade laws. To hoard him so close nothing separated them and the terror of losing him would finally end.