"Ebu, stop fidgeting. The Council floor is not the place for nerves, and if you keep tapping your foot like a restless cub, they’ll scent your apprehension from across the hall.""It’s not nerves, Ifu. It’s the atmosphere. Does this entire dominion always feel like a tomb waiting to be opened?""The Blood Archives have been sealed for a reason. Do not mistake silence for an absence of life. Stay close, keep your eyes on the floor, and for the love of the moon, do not let your scent betray you. If they smell the shift in your hormones, they’ll know you’re carrying.""I am not a weak link, Ifu. I’m the one who deciphered the ledger. I think I can handle a few elders in velvet cloaks.""Handle them? You’re walking into a den of wolves who have been ruling these territories since before your grandfather was born. They don't want your intelligence, Ebu. They want your submission.""Then they’re going to be disappointed.""Perhaps. Or perhaps they’ll be the ones to break you if I’m not ther
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