An eternity trapped in stone, believed to be dead, gives you plenty of time to think, to wonder at what might've been. Could I have stopped the war before it begun? Maybe I should've given into slavery like the rest of my kind. At least that way, fewer would've died.

But I know the truth. Better death in freedom than a life in slavery.

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Saron, the last free Royal Fae, was believed to be dead, killed by another of the Fae. For two hundred years he was frozen in stone, until one day, a young Fae slave pulled the sword from his heart and freed him from his prison. The world had changed while he was imprisoned, but many things stayed the same.

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