The Princess and the Noble's Secret Heart

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…He finally met my gaze, and the intensity of his stare made me falter. There was a weariness there, a profound sadness that seemed to echo the whispers of his family’s past. “The past is a heavy burden, Princess Aurelia. Some seek to bury it, others to exhume it for their own purposes.” “My correspondent,” I said, the words tumbling out before I could stop them. I saw a flicker of surprise, quickly masked, in his eyes. “The one who writes to me of stars and forgotten histories, who understands this… suffocating silence. You told me once that true knowledge comes from understanding the darkness as