Cax's POVRyker passed me the document without a word.I took it and read it the way I read everything that mattered, from the beginning, without skipping, without letting my eyes move ahead of my understanding, because documents were constructed with intention and the intention was usually in the sequence and jumping ahead meant missing what the sequence was designed to do to you.I read the header, the verification notice, the formal Elder Council formatting that I had seen on official bloodline documents enough times to recognize its elements accurately, the specific typeface used for royal family verification, the layout of the bloodline chart, the notation system for establishing lineage connections.I read the first column, the Iron-Claw Kingdom founding family line, our mother's name where it should be, the three of us listed below it in birth order, the dates correct, the verification notation matching the format I had seen on the original documents in the family archive.I re
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