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I smile up at him, letting their calm assurance seep into my mind.

Whatever comes our way—be it in my lifetime, or in thousands of years, in the time of my descendants...

The Aurelian Empire and humanity will be strong enough to stop it. Light will win. The age of nothingness and darkness might come one day, when every last star blinks out of existence, when the last planet is nothing more than an empty rock, but it will not be when any of my kind and his has the strength to wield a sword.

I run my hands over my belly and let dreams of the future grow in my mind. He’s strong, our boy, and he’ll be the firstborn prince of a new empire, an empire strengthened and renewed.

“Ignatius. That’s what we’ll call him. The new fire.”

“It’s perfect,” says Doman, and though it’s Gallien’s night, he can’t resist clambering into bed with me, squeezing me tightly yet giving room for my pregnant belly, and I close my eyes, my mind filled with the thought of tiny ivory fingers clasping around my hand, bright eyes looking up at me inquisitively, and in this room surrounded by my men, I find the peace I never could without them.

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