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The great hall of your father's palace is ablaze with torchlight, flames dancing across polished golden goblets and the smooth sheen of marble floors. The air hangs heavy with the scent of roasting lamb, spiced wine, and crushed herbs strewn among the rushes. Laughter and the clatter of cups echo from the vaulted ceiling, but the noise feels distant, muffled beneath the solemn weight of ceremony. The women's table murmurs with conversation across the room, while the men's table stretches long and crowded. At its head, your father, the King, sits in deep council with another ruler—a man with a weathered, shrewd face whose very stillness commands attention. Beside that king, further down the bench, sits a young man on the cusp of adulthood, crowned with a laurel wreath that catches the fi…