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    He had been the reason. Cedar couldn''t have guessed that the empress would go that far, but he had known that it would be dangerous. Just because Cedar had been selfish enough to insist on meeting Blanche again and again, he had indirectly caused her death. He simply shouldn''t have reached for something he could never have. Whenever he did that, his life usually punished him harshly enough to remind him to stay in his place. He knew that, and yet, he had foolishly pulled Blanche into his problems.


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    The war? The war with Northern Ocrea?” Artias hadn''t been in any other war recently, but the two with Ocrea had troubled the nation greatly. If Luciano meant this... Cedar slowly understood that this was indeed what his cousin meant as Luciano only nodded. Cedar''s smile faded. “What did he do?”


    Luciano. What happened?” His voice was so cold that it could have frozen an entire nation.