The Distant Promise

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You stand at the edge of the gilded balcony, the air thick with the scent of decaying lilies and ozone. Below, the court is a sea of black velvet and whispering silk, a hive of insects frozen in the amber of high noon. The sun does not move here. It hangs suspended, a molten eye staring directly into your soul, demanding answers you are not yet permitted to know. You are young. You are small....

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