The Alchemist's Legacy

Previously

…He turned and left the chamber, leaving Anya with a sense of profound change, a quiet certainty that her future, once a gilded cage, was now an open horizon. She had not just saved her father; she had saved herself. She had faced down the shadows and emerged not with a crown forced upon her head, but with a crown of her own making, forged in the crucible of her own courage and the potent, transformative power of alchemy. The wedding was off. Her destiny, however, was just beginning.