The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

"Step aside, Thorne. The decree is absolute." The Captain of the Guard did not raise his voice, nor did he draw his sword, which hung loose and dull at his hip in the grey morning light. He simply stood in the archway of the Duke’s palace, his eyes fixed on a point somewhere behind my left shoulder, and repeated the phrase with the mechanical precision of a man reciting a prayer he no longer...

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