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The blood in the vial would be tested, verified, recorded. My lineage confirmed, my health certified, my worth assessed like cattle at market. And in two days, I would stand before the Commission and speak vows that would chain me to a man who had already given his heart to another.
Unless I ensured there was nothing left to chain.
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