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The parley is called off. Sir Aldric stood in the center of the Great Hall, the torchlight catching the sweat that beaded on his forehead and the fine, tremulous vibration of his hands, which hung at his sides like dead branches, refusing the weight of the sword hilt that had been his companion for twenty years. The silence in the room was not empty but heavy, a physical pressure that pressed...
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