Hadrian’s Brightest Lie

He smiled through every battle. She measured every variable. The one thing neither of them could calculate was each other.

Neve Ashbourne has written twelve reports. Twelve assessments, twelve sets of data, twelve proofs that the barrier at Greymarch Pass is dying by degrees, and twelve receipts confirming that the Mage Tower filed them without reading a single page. When the Tower finally dispatches her to the garrison, it isn’t because they listened. It’s because the numbers have become impossible to ignore.

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