
Sword Debt
Rowan believes duty must be witnessed, limited, and chosen; Crown Auditor Lucan Vey believes compulsory sacrifice is justified because hesitation once allowed a Bastion to fall. They inevitably collide over the Crown Ledger, which assigns hereditary
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