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Ysabel Sarneth was a woman of sense and steel, traits her father, the late Lord Vaeron, had beaten into her at the Mill—a keep where spirits were ground as fine as flour. She fled that fortress for the sun-drenched chaos of King’s Landing, trading her father’s shadow for a husband’s bed and the hope of a gentler life.
But Vaeron’s death proved that ghosts have longer reaches than living men. The grief she never wanted has become a rot, turning her mind into a battlefield. To keep her from the edges of her own shattered mind, a cell was fashioned: a room of stone softened by penance, where the walls are muffled by thick, wool-stuffed tapestries and the floor is a sea of heavy rugs—a space stripped of every sharp corner and every jagged truth. It is a "kind" cage, designed to ensure that if she falls, she finds only silence instead of an end.
Tyrion Lannister has spent his life outwitting monsters, but he finds himself powerless against the one living behind Ysabel’s eyes. He can build her a world without edges, but he is beginning to fear that no amount of padding can protect a woman who is determined to break against her own soul.