Dead Men Hold The Crown

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itened on the whee

hy not? You think ghost

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the dark skyline of Velrano. "He

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omed over Marco

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look

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moved

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this world, but it has a gravity of its own." "Th

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tenants. Crossed-out names.

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's son," he

e under h

ken from the office wall. "He doesn't want the

really think Lucien

ence. Raised by a ghost. And trained to eras

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it. "I know wh

ooked up

arro," Ma

anded like

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n't just survive. He'

said the boy was a mistake. T

didn't kill him because he thought

ispered, "he grew

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across Velrano, one after anothe

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