Adventure · fiction
The Invitation After the Salute
The ballroom smelled like coffee, polished wood, and the faint trace of expensive cologne. It was the kind of military function where every detail seemed designed to remind you that appearances mattered. Pressed uniforms. Straight backs. Perfectly aligned ribbons. Champagne glasses that never seemed to empty. And near the front of the room,...
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