A Heart Between the Scythe and the Crown

Phaedra is one harvest away from becoming an immortal Arbiter, and the exiled fae prince at her blade’s edge is meant to be her final offering. Then Kaelith invokes an ancient parley rite and asks for three days to settle his blood-debt. Bound by old law to grant the reprieve, Phaedra must escort her intended victim across the storm-haunted borderlands. But every choice tests the cold doctrine that shaped her, and Kaelith’s sharp questions make mercy feel more dangerous than the scythe in her hands. What will Phaedra have left when the final bell rings?