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What Forgiveness Is

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She looked at him on the floor of the council house for a long moment.

She was aware of thirty-two people. She was aware of Sorin behind her and Reyna beside her and the weight of the room's complete attention on this specific moment.

She was aware of all of that and she was also simply with the moment, fully, without any part of her managing the impression she was making. She had stopped managing impressions months ago. She was not going to start again now, in the moment that r

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