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The man who ruled these lands still sat far from its forests — beyond the hills, behind stone and silk, surrounded by voices that spoke of taxes, not names. He had sent no word. No men. No seal pressed into parchment. But then, he never had. His reach had always been silent — the kind that demanded without presence and collected without care.
And here, in the village once bound to that name, the weight of his absence had begun to shift. Not loudly. Not all at once. But slowly ...
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