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“Knight takes
Pawn.” To say Aurelian was losing at this particular game of chess would
be an understatement; he was being crushed, and badly at that. Though he had
never been a master at is as others were, he at least had considered himself
good at the game. That was until Illuria had challenged him anyways. The events
of the ball were still fresh in Aurelian’s mind; it had only been a day and
already word and rumor had spread of a thousand and one different ideas and
plots.

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