A Willing Instrument: When the law demands a lie, the truth becomes a death sentence.
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In the Conclave States, the law is absolute, and the truth is extracted in blood.
Junior Inquisitor Octavia Odes is a flawless instrument of the Pale Commission. Armed with a silver stylus and the agonizing power of blood magic, she carves binding runes into reality, compelling suspects to speak the undeniable truth. To Octavia, strict procedural compliance is the highest form of morality-a psychological fortress built to keep the trauma of her father's state-sanctioned execution at bay.
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