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The immense carved doors groaned inward, cutting through the chamber’s thick, anxious silence. Daylight caught the burnished steel of his armor as Prince Kaelen entered, his face a closed fortress of icy reserve. King Alistair moved beside him with a sovereign’s quiet gravity. They lingered in the shadowed archway, unseen by Princess Elara, who stood trembling on the precipice of an outburst over her weeping handmaid. The very atmosphere tightened with withheld critique and royal observation.