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... e polite man again calm face, clean clothes, patient eyes. Like yesterday hadn’t happened. Like he hadn’t slid a cage across a table and called it "help."
He stepped in with the same servant and the same tray, but this time there was something new beneath the bread and fruit.
A second parchment.
Thicker. Heavier. Sealed with wax.
Lucien didn’t move from the chair.
He watched the parchment the way you watched a blade placed on a table still, silent, waiting ...
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