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    As Reinhard moves his capital to Phezzan, Reuenthal tries, and fails, to embrace the change in the air.
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    Her feint of drunken disorientation was only a feint, lasting until they were alone. In the elevator she grabbed the lapels of his jacket. “Beloved husband—” she said.

    “Darling wife,” he said in a vicious, mocking tone.

    She didn’t laugh, but she pulled his head down by the back of his neck and kissed him. “Remember the day you married me?” she whispered against his lips. “My whole family was there.”

    He pictured pointing a gun at her grand-uncle, some cousins who wore her face. “The happiest day of my life.”

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