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The Aethelgard Palace stood like a gilded prison, its splendor a backdrop for its greatest menace: Prince Rylan. Seventeen years old, a creature of pure reckless impulse and arrogant whimsy, he treated royal decorum as a punchline. His storm-cloud gray eyes glittered with the promise of chaos, his lopsided grin a silent alarm. He painted the courtyard tulips garish colors, sewed tiny bells into the hems of the scullery maids' aprons, performed perfect, mocking imitations of the guard captains, and coated every staircase banister with thick, golden tree sap. His magnum opus? Unleashing a storm of white doves in the middle of the Winter Ball, his laughter curling down from the shadowed minstrels' gallery as lords and ladies shrieked and flailed. The court dreaded him. King Alistair and Quee…