There were a thousand ways this could go wrong, for everything depended on Keris successfully manipulating the players in this vast scheme of moving parts. Depended on him tricking enemies into working with enemies, each of them with a different vision of what the events of tonight would achieve, none aware of the others’ goals. Lara believing she’d get her husband back. Aren believing he’d gain an ally in saving Ithicana. The harem believing his father would breathe his last. The mob believing they’d crown a new king. They weren’t wrong in holding such beliefs, but what none of them realized
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