And virgins, history shows, are very good at keeping secrets. Until they’re not.
They are the silent statues at the golden doors. The untouched sentinels. The "Daughters of the Absolute."
He is "The Vessel." They are "The Seals." A Seal who speaks his birth name is stripped, hosed down in the courtyard, and sent to a "re-education farm" in the northern permafrost. No Seal has ever returned. virgin guards the dictator
The last Dictator was killed by a married woman with three children. His successor? Afraid of anyone who has known desire. So he built a fortress of virgins.
Last year, Guard #7 (Lin, 19, weaver’s daughter) was found in the east garden at 3 AM—not at her post. When asked why, she said only: "He told me to watch the moon with him." She was retired the next morning. No one knows where. But the other Seals now refuse to look at the Dictator when he smiles. And virgins, history shows, are very good at keeping secrets
— Excerpt from “Throne of Glass Hearts,” an upcoming investigation into the world’s last living absolute monarchy.
In the isolated fortress-state of Valdoria, the Dictator’s personal security is not handled by scarred generals or brutish mercenaries. It is handled by the —a unit of 13 young women selected from rural villages before their first blood. Their slogan: "Purity is the ultimate loyalty." The untouched sentinels
Here’s the truth they don’t broadcast: