📍 A Forgotten Salute Became the Moment a Family’s Lie Began to Unravel
CHAPTER 1: THE WEIGHT OF THE INK The auditorium was a cathedral of manufactured pride. Ava Calder focused on the dust motes dancing in a stray beam of light, anything to avoid the Admiral’s predatory gaze as it roamed the crowd. Beside her, a woman fanned herself with a program, the rhythmic thwack-thwack of the paper sounding
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