Chapter 42: What Lycia Wants

Chapter 42: What Lycia Wants

The Lycian trade ship arrived on a Tuesday.

Lysander knew it was coming — the harbor schedules crossed his desk every week as part of the supply role, and the Lycian seasonal convoy was a fixed point in the autumn calendar. What he had not known, until Fylon mentioned it the previous evening, was that the ship carried a specific passenger: not a cargo agent but a senior trade administrator named Sarpedon, traveling from Lycia personally to review the Dardanelles passage terms.

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