tair
landed on the hem of m
iron-tipped cudgels, their eyes raking over
ly weavers and injured woodcutters being shoved violentl
with fury as I pulled my children against my ribs. "The receipt is register
on my boots!" the medic sneered, s
mmon law of the Middle Reaches. Lady Candida requires an absolute radius of pure silence and clean air to stabilize her wom
Always
glory, and now she was sending her dogs to r
wn, and you call it an heir," I
"Insolent bitch! How dare you
distic pleasure. "If you won't walk, I'll bash those nameless ru
oward the basket, whistl
icker rim, curling my spine
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k snapping in a gale rippe
a wall of pure, blinding kinetic force detonated above
d, look
who had tended to my chil
right hand-bare, pale, and glowing with an eerie, white-hot l
nchanted to shatter bone, was g
the weapon down or yank it back. "Do you know who I am? I represent the High Hous
man tilted
oal cowl, a pair of eyes like m
oom-not the sharp, biting pressure of a Warlord, but
reign
s simultaneously, their knees slamming into
their breath wheezing in pure, animalistic terror. They couldn't m
cultured, and deadlier than a drawn blade. "A second-tier border h
ed his
cloud of glittering gray dust, drifti
g into the stone doorframe, his face the color of
nd slowly peeled off his charcoal leat
index finger wa
arved from a single, seamless band of translucent Crown-wood, encasing a core o
rest: a golden Great Tree flanked by twin platinum sc
The seal of an im
im on the spot. A foul puddle spread across the stone be
Each of his footfalls sounded like a funeral drum. "You raised cold iron against newbo
inger and pointed it
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ofession, his status, and his citizenship-cracked do
. The Unmaking. His life's registry, his connection to the council's rec
bellies like beaten curs. "Drag him to the lowest tier of the penal mines. If I ever see his f
ambling to grab their former master by the collar and dr
nto stunned, ab
ng platinum ring on the man's finger. A lord of the First Tier? A Stafford of the Crown? Wh
urned back
ushing aura vanished as
filthy bed, bowing his head sl
ith a lifetime of sorrow. "Forgive your unc
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