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The mansion at Valemont was not what Lucian had expected. It was wide instead of tall, spread across a slope where the Ralan forests began to thin. Pale stone walls reflected the afternoon sun, and the air carried the smell of citrus and wet grass from the nearby orchards. The servants had set a row of wooden chairs under the shade of the veranda for the applicants waiting their turn.
