[KUANGXIN]
She felt it even before she could voice it. The change that was screaming at her from the inside. The way that her body was aching in different ways. She had seen them in Shenxia... These symptoms. They were too familiar.
She had learned them as part of her duty as a queen at her home.
But even then, this wasn't supposed to happen to her.
Not when she was so far away from home.
And not after three decades of being with only one person away from home. What the fuck?
Gods, Liu hated where her mind was taking her. But she should have known better than to have faith in the darn queen mother.
She should have noticed the woman who had stepped up was never up to any good.
The first time she felt it all, Liu had chosen to hide away. She chose to disappear into the quiet of her former chambers, like a pet discarded by the mad queen; only that Liu was not even just a pet anymore.
She was something else.
She was the queen's chosen Erasthai.
