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... , but at every gathering like it that had come before. This was tradition—older than the reign of the current emperor, older than any one royal line. When a member of the imperial family sought strength outside the imperiality, this was how it was done: a hall, a table, a crowd of the ambitious.
And a fight.
Every Imperial royal like Iris who sought to rise had held a banquet like this. And every banquet had a trial.
But the trial was never as simple as it appeared.
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