Chapter 5: First blood

Chapter 5: First blood

Maris was easy to spot. He had the look of someone who had been the most impressive person in every room he had entered before this one and was currently recalibrating to a larger room. Good looking in an aggressive sort of way, the kind of features that worked best when he was smiling confidently and worked considerably less well when he was not. He had summoned a mid-tier warrior class knight at the ceremony, solid and respectable, and he had taken his applause like it was owed to him.

He clocked me early in the session and I watched him decide something from across the courtyard.

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