The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

The sword is gone. That was the first thing I noticed, not the silence in the hall, but the absence of the steel against my hip, a phantom limb that throbbed with a dull, muscular ache I had carried for twenty years. I stood in the center of the Great Hall, surrounded by the other men, and I felt naked, stripped of the weight that had defined my posture since I was a boy of twenty-two. The air...

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