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Author: Favour
last update publish date: 2026-03-11 02:33:17

Chapter 128: The Board Resets

Three days after.

The palace was doing what palaces did after catastrophe. Moving. Functioning. Guards on every wall. Staff in every corridor. The machinery of it grinding forward because stopping meant acknowledging what had happened and there were still too many things that needed doing before anyone could afford to do that.

Lucian had slept four hours in three days.

Nobody mentioned it.

The first council meeting without Grandfather happened on the morning of the
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