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327. THE ANATOMY OF SATURN.

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SAGE.

My nerves were shot. Even after I had showered, I was still unable to relax. There was a form of nervous excitement coursing through me as Dominic drove.

It was hard not to imagine what I would come across when I saw the anatomy of Saturn. I felt so guilty about how curious I was.

"I can smell guilt from you," Dominic remarked as he pulled over in front of an old building that looked half like a warehouse and half like a library.

It was not until we got inside that I realized that it was
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    Sage.The session broke into chaos, Elders clustering into knots of hushed argument, aides scurrying between them with folders and whispered updates. I slipped out a side door before anyone could pull me into the middle of it, Kieran close behind."That's not going to make the Council fear you less," he said, once we were clear of the hall."Good.""I'm serious, Sage. A room full of powerful people just watched you unravel one of their own in under two minutes. Some of them are going to be impressed. More of them are going to be terrified.""Let them be terrified of the truth for once instead of me.""They don't separate the two anymore," he said. "That's the problem."I didn't have an answer for that, because he wasn't wrong, and we both knew it. We walked in silence toward the courtyard, the cool evening air a relief after the stifling weight of the hall, and I nearly missed the black car idling near the gate until Kieran stopped walking."Black Crest plates," he said, tone flatteni

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