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... ight in Alex's gut when the official summons arrived. A delegation of lictors, their ceremonial axes bundled in rods of birchwood, appeared at his palace gates with a formal proclamation. At the request of the esteemed Consul Quintus Metellus, the Senate was being called into a special session to address the "impending grain crisis and its impact on the state treasury."
It was a declaration of war disguised as a civic debate. Alex knew at once that this wasn't about the grain. It was abo ...
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