The Royal Court rises around you, its chandeliers casting warm light across banners that have watched over generations of rulers. Here, beneath soaring ceilings and centuries of history, the kingdom’s future waits to be decided.

You enter with the Lady in Blue at your side. Before the gathered court, you place her locket back into her hand. She closes her fingers around it for a moment, then lifts her gaze toward the hall ahead.

A door opens at the far end of the hall. The Rose Princess steps inside. For a moment, the room falls silent. She crosses the hall and stops before the Lady in Blue. Neither speaks. Then the Lady in Blue slowly reveals the locket she has carried her entire life. The kingdom’s seal on the front. Inside: a crescent moon cradling a snowflake on one side, and a flower blooming behind a rising sun on the other. Winter’s final night. Spring’s first morning. 

The Rose Princess reaches for the locket at her own neck and opens it. It is identical in every way. The same seal. The same symbols. The same story, carried by both sisters as if whoever made them always knew they would need matching pieces to find their way back to each other.

The sisters stare at one another. Neither needs further proof. At last, the truth stands before them. The Princess turns to the guards. “Bring me the Chancellor.” The order is carried out at once.

While they wait, you present everything you discovered within the Royal Library: the altered records, the hidden snowflake, the damaged prophecy, and the evidence that a second royal child had been erased from history.

When the Chancellor final enters the hall, he stops short. For the first time, he sees the two sisters standing together. His composure falters.

The Rose Princess steps forward.

“I know what you did.”