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What had caught the moonlight was a familiar, bare scalp with not a single hair left on it.
The captain?
A man I had killed in the last life, and again right after clawing out of my grave in this one, was sprinting through the city at a ridiculous speed.
Swoosh!
He turned onto a deserted street, no longer bothering to hide. A fierce wind howled in his wake. Kirk's men had said the lord of Yublam and the guard captain were acting strangely. Asphode, the bald captain, could never move that fast.
Spellbound by that speed, I followed. It could have been a trap, but I absolutely had to know how he was still alive or what was happening.
Swoosh!
Without a backward glance, Asphode dashed straight toward the inner keep. Two guards at the gate saluted him and opened the doors at once.
Were the lord and the guard captain ever this close?
I recalled the day Leandro arrived, pounding on the gate with his fist, when Yublam's factions split and fought atop the walls.
The guard captain enslaved travelers and sold them! He's a Necron lackey! He took the seal! Let me punish him!
It was the damned lord's orders! You grew opium in the keep! My lord marquis! He's the one who got Yublam hooked!
The memory faded. They had never trusted each other. Now, the corridor...
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