banning Stardust at the academy since assuming command. Which was a wonder, considering the tales Jassyn heard of the debauched parties the prince had thrown at the palace in his youth. But there had to be something else. Would Stardust cast him into such a downward spiral? The drug was supposed to induce ecstasy, but Jassyn knew little of it beyond sensing it. He tunneled his perception further. His instincts were right. There was a…foreign abnormality on the magister’s brain, like a barnacle latched onto a shell. Jassyn failed to recognize the irregularity. A flicker of unease chilled his
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