Chapter 39
Chapter 39 The palace resumed its usual rhythm the morning after the council meeting. Servants crossed polished corridors carrying stacks of correspondence while clerks moved between offices with ledgers tucked beneath their arms. Somewhere farther down the hall, two advisors were already debating tax revenues before breakfast had properly ended, their voices drifting through open doorways as the business of the kingdom settled back into its familiar pace. The Alpha King signed the final page of a trade agreement and slid it across his desk before looking up at the advisor waiting opposite him. "What else?" His advisor consulted the papers in his hands. "The bridge repairs are ahead of schedule. The eastern grain shipment arrived before dawn. The guild leaders have accepted the revised
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