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Chapter 106: The Grateful Innkeeper
Author: Sweet Minion
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The velvet-clad bureaucrat, a man who introduced himself with an oily flourish as Magistrate Hallow, clearly expected Mordren to recoil. He stood in the center of the mud, his hands clasped behind his back, an expression of predatory satisfaction etched into his features. He assumed that a gentleman, dressed in clothes that had survived the fires of Aethelgard with nothing more than a few discreet repairs, would be intimidated by the prospect of an extr

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