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Tollan stretched beneath her window. Malina pushed herself forward into the breeze her hands reading on the marble railing. She looked down and saw that her arms matched the placement of the curved baluster. She looked at her bare forearms and smiled feeling the warmth of the sun and the weight of her jade headdress. Empress. Empress, of all that she could see beneath her. The world rocked and Malina blinked into the sun. She found herself rising and falling on a bed of straw at the bottom of a boat in a cell. Empress.