As our steps echoed in the #citadel's hallway, my visitor said, "So you didn't depose him for money?"

"Nope."

"Power?"

"Nope."

"Surely not... public adulation?"

I halted with a chuckle. "We bureaucrats like to work in the shadows."

"So, why?"

I flung open the library door. "His book collection!"

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