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Madoc trains Jude in swordplay and fighting. Taryn is learning, too. He has them team up to fight him. He hugs them after they lose.
Cardan is five months into his reign as king and five months into his one year plus one day submission to Jude. No one knows she’s pulling the strings to his every move and word. They hate each other as much as ever.
Jude hopes she can extend the link beyond then to protect her brother Oak, who she sent to the mortal world with her other sister Viv to have a semblance of a normal childhood before he returns to rule.
Jude sees Taryn dancing with her betrothed, Locke. They will be married in three weeks, and Jude wishes she and her twin were on speaking terms before then.
Severin and Grimsen come forth asking the king for a pardon. He will grant it for an oath, but they don’t want to be tied to another one. They want a chance to prove their loyalty through their legendary metalworking. Cardan grants this before the suspicious Jude has gone to protest and use her control over him to stop him.
A hag comes before him next with gifts. Jude senses some kind of deception and intercepts the transaction. The hex leaves her magical cloth as one gift for the king and leaves after revealing she was trying to compel him to marry her or her daughter.
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