Royal Risk Short Story: Ilya/Hadrian "The Night Before" close

Hadrian didn't notice the portrait swing open. Ilya stepped down over the threshold of the secret passage and stood there, watching. The table in the middle of the room, usually full of stacks of books and papers and various contraptions, had been cleared to make room for the large map now unfurled across its surface. The only place for books there now were the heavy tomes that held down...

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