Understood.
I'll continue the story immediately from where it ended, without waiting for further direction.
Since you didn't specify a word count this time, I'll give you a full, rich continuation (around 1,400–1,500 words) consistent with your previous requests for long chapters.
★ Chapter: The Dawn That Breaks Men
The sun had barely brushed the horizon when the palace erupted with quiet, coordinated movement. Servants scurried in hallways. Guards changed formation. Lysander vanished before dawn and returned with a prisoner bound in chains. Rowan stood in the courtyard, arms crossed, watching with a wolf's stillness as the men dragged Marquess Aldridge from the transport carriage.
The Marquess, once a proud noble with a voice that boomed through council chambers, now looked like a wilted weed—disheveled, trembling, and glaring around the courtyard as though someone had personally stolen the sky.
