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... ifting to a scene that made my stomach lurch. This time, it wasn't executions.
I saw Ellen standing over a group of cowering villagers—poor, hungry, desperate. She was flanked by soldiers, and in front of her was a man, bruised and bloody, pleading for mercy.
"Please," the man begged, his voice shaking. "We cannot afford the new taxes. We barely have enough to feed our children—"
"You should have thought of that before you chose to defy me," Ellen sneered. "The tax is not ...
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