The main hall of the lower logistics center was a sprawling, stone-walled warehouse filled with hundreds of wooden crates, heavy canvas grain sacks, and iron-bound shipping barrels. The air inside smelled strongly of dry wheat, old hemp ropes, and the sharp, bitter tang of activated containment wax. Outside, the midnight wind howled continuously through the open structural rafters, but inside the center of the floor, the atmosphere had settled into an absolute, chokingly heavy silence.Lord Vane’s primary sleeper agents—three high-ranking northern transport directors—sat lined up along the long mahogany accounting table, their faces turning a sickening, ashen shade of white as the heavy double doors of the warehouse were violently thrown open from the outside.I marched straight into the center of the hall, the charcoal leather of my structured tunic cutting a majestic, unyielding silhouette against the pale glare of the lanterns. Lord Alistair and the three High Council judges walked
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