The Price of a Crown

Aboard the chartered plane hurtling through the pitch-black sky toward the Gemstone Pack, Roxana sat quietly by the small oval window, staring out into the dark, empty void. The relentless, low thrum of the jet engines vibrated through the floorboards, a constant mechanical drone that did little to drown out the heavy tension thick in the cabin air. All around her, the elite strike team was in gri