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The King's Fear
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2026-10-10 16:24:07She woke to find him watching her.
Not anxiously — with the specific, focused quality she had come to know in Lucien over months of proximity. The quality that looked like stillness from the outside and was, from the inside, something closer to complete alertness. Every part of him present and directed at one thing.
She was the thing.
She said: how long?
He said: fourteen hours.
She breathed. She assessed the quality of her body's state &
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