~ The Throne Room — Athoria Palace
The voice came from the doorway.
Not loud. Not announced. Not preceded by guards or heralds or the trumpeting that accompanied royalty. Just a voice. A woman's voice. The kind of voice that carried not because it was raised but because the room went quiet to hear it.
"You..."
One word. Two letters. Spoken on an exhale. The breath of a woman who has just walked into a room and found something she did not expect.
Queen Revaone stood in the doorway of the throne room.
