Chapter 7 Troy Wants Her Back

• Three days after the Trial of Scales, the luxury of the Capital's high district felt like another world.
• Lord Vane had given me a private courtyard estate near the gates of the Grand Dragon Academy. The air here was rich with spirit energy, filled with the smell of fresh pine and blooming white orchids. Fine silk curtains moved gently in the tall windows, and the stone floors were so polished they reflected the morning sunlight.
• For the first time in two lives, I woke up without the taste of blood in my mouth.