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Five

Krush

Tusk’s nerve outweighs his actual influence by a significant factor, but I let him speak to me as he liked because I a with

I have no intention of choosing acereto learn the hard way

I need so here is a twisted lie Everybody inside it is either a captive or a puppeteer, and more often than not, both

I go to the city To Megaris proper I have always felt a kinship with the city I like the way it runs according to its os Elite humans will tell you that there is an inherent order to the city, but the truth is that order only exists inside the prograaris is filthy and unpredictable It is the scum that make this place what it is They are the lowest of the low, they have the least of anybody, and yet they are the character and the spirit of the entirety They are also my preferred prey

This city is not merely a place where humans toil and suffer, and where soldiers oppress It is also a place where the elite have a very good time within the limited boundaries of their allowed experience, and where korabi ht also enjoy themselves if they are prepared to put up with the occasional scu scum is one of the last pleasures left to me

My club of choice is called Last Seconds I enter it unobserved Hu I do not wish thes for soister on their little ocular nerves, they would not allow the

I order a drink And then another drink I folloith another beverage And then, feeling sooes on for so attention to ti as it takes Outside the day grows light and then turns dark again I lose track of how many times it does that

When I aendas of the palaceentirely

“Sire”

“What”

I don't need to turn my head to know that it is Krow, the head of security My father’s head of security He did not resign in sha my father’s assassination He did not cast hihest peak as atoneh he had not failed all of us I wonder if he knohat Tyvian knows, that Rath K’zar is loose somewhere, perhaps outside the walls, perhaps inside them