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Chapter 116 - THE INITIALS

CHAPTER 116

The council chamber smelled faintly of parchment and old wood, the kind of smell that clung to secrets left too long unspoken. Mathew Sterrn sat at the end of the long table, a stack of records spread before him. The candles flickered, throwing shadows across the columns of names and notes he had spent the better part of two days deciphering.

He had followed Robert's trail carefully, every assignment, every battle recorded under his command. What at first seemed like an unbroken record of loyalty now showed fractures. Too many deaths had been explained away as "necessary" or "unavoidable." Too many witnesses were marked as "lost" after disputes with the commander.

And then Mathew found a page. Hidden within a folded cover, written in a different hand, it carried a simple line:

"Let Robert be. He is protected. ..H."

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