The Faded Frontier
The banquet hall smells of roasted pheasant and old stone. You sit at the far end of the long oak table. Your hands are wrapped in white linen. The cloth is stained with grease and wine, but your fingers remain still. They do not tremble. You have trained them not to tremble. This is the first thing they taught you in the academy, before the drills, before the maps, before the code of conduct....
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