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Chapter 25 THE SUMMIT OF THREE BANNERS

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Days after the market confrontation, tension settled into the castle like sediment in river water - not loud, not breaking, but present in every footstep, every glance, every meal that passed from hand to hand.
jackline read it not as a threat,
but as the climate.
People no longer moved with fear.
They moved with choice.
And choice was powerful - a