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 | | Of that most ancient past, Shibari was one of the most ancient, perhapscertainly no one of this nervous age dared speculatewith an ancient claim on imperium, on the throne itself. |
 | | But he had to walk down the hall, shake off his young escort, and walk in on Shibari in his study, accounts in arms, and stand there until Shibari, in a spindly chair at a desk piled high with codices and scrolls, realized he had a visitor. |
 | | Shibari looked at him most carefully in a troubled way, as if he could read everything in Sulun that he possibly wanted to know today. |
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