It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting. — Mary Renault, The King Must Die
It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting. — Mary Renault, The King Must Die
It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting. — Mary Renault, The King Must Die
It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting. — Mary Renault, The King Must Die
It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting. — Mary Renault, The King Must Die
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It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

— Mary Renault, The King Must Die
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