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Chapter 36 – The Ruling

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(Rene)

Levi Knox unnerves me because he’s so soft-spoken, while simultaneously imbued with divine authority.

The great room is full and dead quiet.

My pack along one wall, the Myr along the other, Maliyah at the head of hers like she's the one presiding.

Parker is seated in a chair in the middle, unrestrained, because the Warden decreed that there should be no chains, and what a Warden asks for, he gets.

Knox stands where the window light finds him, exuding a calm that seems to cost everyone in
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