Alpha VeyronI sat behind my desk with the eastern military reports spread before me, my attention fixed on the map laid across the polished blackwood. The afternoon light filtering through the tall windows cast long shadows across the parchment, but I barely noticed. My focus had narrowed to a single, damning number written in the margin of the topmost document.Three hundred and forty-two soldiers had gone silent at the eastern outpost.No distress signal.No surviving messenger.No explanation.And yet, somehow, the ministers had found enough time to argue over budgets and troop allocations while an entire military unit disappeared from my territory without a trace.My fingers tightened around the pen until I felt the wood begin to splinter.“Pathetic.”The word left my mouth quietly, but every servant in the room lowered their head further, their breathing going shallow. I could smell their fear—sharp and metallic, like copper on the tongue. It should have pleased me. Fear was a t
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