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Chapter 46 - The Pact of Crows

Mestrianus reached Licinius's encampment at the frayed edge of dusk, his cloak weighed with dust and a dread that no wine could drown. Word of Constantine's demands swept through the tent city before he had even delivered them, a whisper that bled color from every cheek it touched. When the wax tablets were unrolled beneath the gold lamps of the imperial pavilion, an unnatural silence gripped the officers. All of Europe was demanded, every province west of the Hellespont. Valerius Valens, the Caesar Licinius had created in haste, to be sacrificed as an offering of submission. No negotiations, no quarter-just the thin chill of an ultimatum.

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