The Distant Affair

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The ledger weighed four pounds, two ounces, and a lie. Elias Thorne, Captain of the Royal Guard, stood before the gilded doors of the Throne Room, the heavy oak book clutched in his left hand while his right rested on the pommel of his sword. He had counted the hours since dawn: six hours of silence, three of which he had spent watching the light shift from the amber of the east window to the...

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