The Faded Shield
The banquet hall was a cavern of polished mahogany and low, amber light, smelling of roasted duck, beeswax, and the stale sweat of ambition. Thomas Bradshaw sat at the long oak table, his uniform immaculate, the brass buttons cold against his chest. He was a man carved from the same hard wood as the table, his face a map of deep lines etched by decades of service, though his hands, resting on...
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