This Gilded Abyss

Nix wasn’t some starry eyed twenty-one-year-old anymore, swept up in the glamor of a romance with a royal. Considering she was Nix’s age—twenty-five—and barely had three years of military experience before her forced retirement, all those medals made her look fucking absurd. Hopefully what was happening here was an isolated incident… because if it wasn’t, Nix doubted any of them would survive. She fumbled for her sarrant and finally sheathed it.