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  1. Public Bookmark 66

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    “So,” he said, “You are to be our grandson’s wife.”
    “An it pleases His Serenity and our father,” said Csethiro Ceredin. Her voice was deeper than he had expected, and she seemed to have to work to keep it from carrying.
    “And how does it please Csethiro Ceredin, pray?” said Maru. 
    “As well as it pleases any lady chosen to be Zhasan, we have no doubt,” said Csethiro coolly. 
    Saying that to Chenelo Sevraseched’s father was either stupid or deliberately brassy, and Maru had already ruled out the likelihood of her being stupid.

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  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    Raised at the Corat' Dav Arhos after the death of his mother, Maia learns that he has been betrothed to an elvish lady in the Untheileneise Court without his knowledge.

    Thus begins a correspondence between Lieutenant Maia Sevraseched and Dach'osmin Csethiro Ceredin.

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  3. Public Bookmark 8

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    It's nearly midnight when he receives the message. Filtered through the careful courtesy of an Alcethmeret page, it comes as a simple summons, scrubbed of nearly all the anxiety and urgency he knows the emperor too well to assume is not present.

    There are no details. The emperor knows him too well to assume he'd need them.

    A late night conversation between secretary and emperor.

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  4. Public Bookmark 41

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    “...forgive us for the presumption,” Edrehasivar said, tone slightly strangled in the way it always is when he doesn’t like what is coming out of his mouth. “But we thought, if we... that is, if we, er… attended... then you would not have to… no one would have to…" He sagged under our stares. “...stay behind,” he finished feebly.

    We were at that moment visited by a terrible, inevitable vision of the Ethuverazhid Zhas cornered by our mother, and we confess we had to lean on the wall in a brief violation of Alchenar IX.I.VI. Even the edocharei seemed taken aback; even Cala. Edrehasivar looked horribly dismayed at this non-reaction, and immediately started to backtrack. 

    "We do not wish to inflict ourself," he said wretchedly. "It was only a— a thought…" He trailed off, but the pause persisted. In it, we reflected to ourself that while we had taken knives for this boy, and would willingly take plenty more, he had — indeed, has — a talent for making us want to scream in dismay.

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    the alcethmeret's annual springnight gala goes... interestingly.

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    Two days before the crash of the Wisdom of Choharo took the lives of the Emperor Varenechibel IV and his three sons, a letter arrived at the Untheileneise Court, hailing all the way from the Drazhadeise Manor in the west of Thu-Evresar. In it, was the reported death of Setheris Nelar: the cousin and guardian of Archduke Maia Drazhar.

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