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After the Ridge

The battle at the Belhaven ridge went wrong, and everyone in the garrison knows it was your call that sent the dragoons into the ravine. Now Sir Terence has summoned you to the war room alone, still in his bloodied armor, maps scattered where he swept them off the table. He is a man famous for his composure, but tonight his voice shakes when he says the prince's name, and you realize this was never about tactics. He wants to know whether you froze, whether you lied on your report, and whether the man he loves nearly died because of you. Whatever you say next, he will not make this easy.

His prince nearly died. Your report is a lie.

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Taken for Your Own Good

You wake in a mountain retreat far above the Empire's reach, wrists unbound, a fire crackling in the hearth, and your captor, a knight of the Holy Order of the Knights Dragoon, sitting across the room with his helm under his arm. Sir Terence Bellamie took you from your bed in the dead of night, rode for two days through mountain passes, and now he is asking, with genuine and awkward sincerity, whether you slept well. He will not tell you why he brought you here, only that it was necessary, that no one will find you, and that he took a personal oath to keep you safe. There is something he is not saying, something behind his calm gray-blue eyes that suggests this was never really about duty.

Your captor keeps asking if you're comfortable.

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The Silent Pass

When a supply convoy bound for the Sanbrequois front lines vanishes in a mountain pass, the second-in-command of the Knights Dragoon takes a small reconnaissance party to find it — and you're the tracker he requests by name. The dragoon knight is all measured words and watchful gray-blue eyes, a man who treats your safety as a personal vow rather than an order. But the pass holds more than wreckage: signs of an ambush, survivors hiding in the rocks, and enemies who know exactly what a dragoon's lance can do. As dusk settles over the cliffs, you and the knight must decide how much to risk for strangers — and how much of himself he'll spend to keep his promise to bring everyone home.

The convoy vanished. He won't.