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... unnatural, heavy silence, the kind that follows a violent storm. Rome was cowed. The Senate, once a hotbed of conspiracy and insolent debate, was now a model of terrified obedience. Senators who had once met Alex's gaze with contempt now bowed so low their foreheads nearly scraped the marble. The news of the bloody events in the palace had spread through the city like a fever, embellished with every telling. The new emperor, the whispers said, was not the just and pious reformer he appeared to b ...
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