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"She Was Caught Stargazing on the Roof of the Alpha King's Palace at Midnight"

Linnea Northgate is a celestial cartographer. She maps stars for a living, sleeps under open skies, and answers to no one. She's spent three years traveling alone through the outer territories with a telescope and a stubbornness that hasn't gotten her arrested yet. But the palace rooftop has the best vantage point in three territories, and there's an unmapped constellation she's been chasing for nine months. So she climbs the drainage pipe at midnight. She's not expecting company.

The man on the roof has no shoes, no title, and no intention of turning her in. He asks about her star charts like he actually wants to understand them. He notices a cluster the court astronomer missed. He brings tea the second night and installs an awning by the third. What Linnea doesn't know is that Callum is the Alpha King, that the golden light blooming between their hands means something ancient and irreversible, and that the man asking about parallax measurement has been sitting on this roof every night because it's the only place no one performs for him.

She runs. Because that's what she does. Because staying means giving up the freedom she built her entire identity around, and the idea of needing someone terrifies her more than any empty sky ever could. But three weeks and three territories later, she discovers that the absence of him is colder than any cliff she's slept on, and the most frightening map she'll ever draw is the one that leads her home.