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The incense-heavy air of the cathedral grew stifling as you took the final steps toward the altar, bound by a marriage of cold statecraft. Concealed beneath the elaborate embroidery of her gown lay the truth of Kaelen, her sworn shield, whose gaze—a storm of green visible through the narrow eye-slit of his helm—held a universe of silent torment. The priest's solemn words rolled through the stone vaults, and the assembled nobility became a single, watchful entity. The fate of the realm balanced on the tip of her tongue.