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The three days passed quietly.
Too quietly. The palace had a specific quality in those three days — fewer people in the corridors than usual, shorter morning briefings, conversations that started and stopped faster than normal. Collective instinct. Everyone knew something important was happening in the upper rooms and had decided without being told that the appropriate response was less noise.
’Or,’ Lysander thought, on the second morning, ’the harbor is exactly as loud as it always is and I am the one who is quieter and blaming it on everyone else.’
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