The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

The banquet hall of the Sterling Mill sat heavy with the scent of roasted duck and stale wood polish, a suffocating perfume that clung to the throats of every man and woman who had gathered beneath the vaulted ceilings of the industrial power center. It was a feast not of celebration, but of consolidation, a ritualistic display of dominance where the clinking of crystal goblets against heavy...

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