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The Luna I Was Never Allowed To Be 97
ELARA It's been days since I got a message from Kieran and since I sent my reply to him. I've been busy handling only very mild issues and following up the investigation on the missing person and tracing who was behind the forged royal authorization. I was currently at a meeting about a drainage channel and genuinely enjoying the argument.I had another issue to resolve. The farmers from two neighboring villages had been disputing access to the same stretch of water for nearly an hour. One insisted the other had widened his side of the channel during the last planting season while the other claimed the first farmer had been diverting more water than his share for years.Mara had already produced three records, two old maps, and one report written by a district officer who had apparently believed that using the phrase ‘reasonable allocation’ meant he had solved the matter.He had not.I rubbed my forehead."If you both agree that the channel is too narrow for the amount of water y
The Luna I Was Never Allowed To Be 96
RONAN“You've been doing this too long," Merek said quietly and I looked up.The older man smiled, "I'm not talking about the investigation, I'm talking about the military."I almost laughed, "There's a difference?""There is when you're looking for someone who might have betrayed you. If you decide every ordinary decision was suspicious after the fact, you'll find guilt everywhere."I leaned back, "Do you think I'm doing that?""I think you're angry."That was harder to dismiss and he continued before I could answer."And if Garrick did something wrong, anger won't help you prove it because you'll need to find the thing he couldn't explain."I stared at him and then he nodded, “That's fair."Merek was halfway through another explanation when he mentioned something about the battle."There were plenty of changes during that period, routes were being adjusted constantly.""Is it because of the fighting?""Because of mud, damaged roads, injured teams, burned crossings, missing drivers
The Luna I Was Never Allowed To Be 95
RONANThe quartermaster's records room smelled of dust, old leather, and the faint oil used to preserve military equipment.I had been there long enough for the clerk at the far desk to stop pretending not to watch me. I turned to another page but I still couldn't see what I was looking for. Weeks had passed since I had first heard about the Moonblade military insignia discovered in an abandoned cabin in Aveloria's northern forest. The physical metal box that was found too had already been examined from every angle that mattered. The insignia was genuine and the style belonged to Moonblade's military. Boxes of that kind had been used in the field for dispatches, small documents, personal command materials, and supplies.There was simply no record identifying that particular box.I had accepted that part.What I had not accepted was the question that came after it.I was no longer trying to determine whether the box belonged to Moonblade, I knew it did.I just wanted to know how i
The Luna I Was Never Allowed To Be 94
ELARA I shook my head.This was becoming really embarrassing.Cassian came to see me later that evening in one of the smaller council rooms.I had taken the old transport records with me, intending to spend a little time comparing the road designation Elias had remembered against the district archives.Instead, I had spent several minutes staring at the same line without reading it.I heard the door open and Cassian entered carrying two cups.“You look busy.”“I am.”He placed one cup beside me,“You've been staring at that page for a while.”“I am thinking.”“You've been thinking about the same line for ten minutes?”I looked at him and he smiled.I sighed and accepted the tea, “Thank you.”He pulled out the chair opposite mine.For a while, neither of us spoke and I returned to the document.Cassian took a sip of his tea and then he said, very casually, “That looks suspiciously like a message you were hoping to receive.”My eyes lifted, “It isn't.”“I didn't say it was.”“You implie
The Luna I Was Never Allowed To Be 93
ELARA Several days passed after my last visit with Elias and I got carried away by so many other things, it was work related though. The investigation for the missing workers was still going though. I realized I always looked toward the entrance whenever the door opened at any slightest chance I got. It happened in the middle of an ordinary morning at the district office, while two village representatives were standing in front of my desk discussing a dispute over irrigation water.Neither of them had anything particularly interesting to say.One believed the other had diverted more water toward his fields than their agreement allowed. The other insisted the problem had been caused by a damaged channel farther upstream and maintained that he had used no more than his share.I had nearly spent twenty minutes comparing the dates of their harvest records when the door opened behind them.My eyes lifted automatically and then I stopped.It wasn't Kieran like my mind had expected. I
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ELARA “We weren't looking for one place,” I said quietly and Mara looked at me.“We were looking for a pattern of movement.”She nodded slowly, “That's what it looks like.”I gathered the records into one pile.It wasn't an answer to all the questions on my mind but it was the first time the confusion had begun to make sense.The missing workers were not necessarily disappearing from a single construction site, they were moving through a system and somewhere inside that system, the payment intermediary kept appearing.I looked again at the token, it now felt different in my hand not because it had suddenly become proof of anything, but because I understood what kind of question it might answer.Who had been moving these workers and who had been keeping track of them?Rhys was waiting outside when I left the office.“You're going somewhere.”It wasn't a question, I folded my arms.“I thought I was the district administrator.”“You are.”“Then perhaps I can decide where I go.”“You can
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