Chapter 7 · free to read
It was meant to be survivable. That was the entire point of it.
I had already died on that step once, four minutes ago. I knew exactly which stone it was.
So I fell. On purpose, badly, with my arm underneath me, and I did not spend one second of the minute.
The Emperor Regent Halvic had not spoken to the court in nine years. Everyone agreed he was senile.
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