🔑 Deleted Scene
The Weeping Wood
Caelan
The wood weeps because it remembers. Every tree here grew from a soldier who chose the wrong side of a war the histories no longer name.
She walks ahead of me, hand trailing the bark like she is apologizing to each of them in turn. I should tell her they cannot feel it. I should tell her a great many things.
Instead I watch a queen learn grief in a forest of the forgotten, and I understand — too late, always too late — that I would raze three kingdoms before I let this one break her.
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