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'They're so cruel,' Benjamin pondered. 'It's harmful to their humanity, but still they persist in it.'
He had watched helplessly from the crowd as Kallida continued his dedicated character assassination. The conversation had moved from the Ambassador to the Kingsmen, then to the Armorials, and now to Caliphus. They met in a discreet contest of words as two men battling over a ship's rudder, the gentlest t
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