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... of the city's anxieties. The air, usually a chaotic but vibrant mix of livestock, commerce, and cooking food, now felt taut, strung with a low hum of discontent. The price of bread, that simple, daily barometer of the city's health, had risen again. The smiles of the merchants were strained, and the laughter of the common folk was brittle. Fear, Alex was learning, had a scent, and it smelled of sour wine and damp, nervous sweat.
This was the new frontline of his war, a battlefield of whi ...
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