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    He identified the prince's isolation as a vulnerability. He was not wrong. That was, unfortunately, not the problem.

    The problem was the reading room at midnight. The problem was the argument about defensive strategy that neither of them won. The problem was a name said without a title in a corridor at the second hour, and the specific way Illuga looked at him like he was something worth understanding rather than something worth using.

    The problem, in short, was that Lohen had gone looking for an edge to pull on and had instead found a person.

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