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Chapter 77: Rumors Reach the Throne
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2026-04-09 13:00:14(Kai POV)
We were forty minutes into the morning drill when I heard them.
Two women from the domestic staff, crossing the far end of the training yard with a basket between them, talking in the low urgent way people talked when they were passing something they believed was important. I wasn't paying attention until I heard Lena's name, and then I was paying attention to nothing else.
"...signed the order himself, that's what they're saying.
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