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Chapter 12: The Crimson Banquet

I awoke to rustling silken and gentle commands.

Servants in the palace swept past me in a whirl of color, slamming open richly carved closets, holding out dazzling gowns, and smoothing perfumed-clad hands across my flesh.

The Crimson Banquet lay before me this night.

An evening on which silken-drape...