The Distant Cartograph
The rain did not fall. It hung. A grey, static curtain over the cobbled streets of Ashenmere, turning the city into a watercolor sketch that refused to dry. In the narrow, soot-stained alley behind the Weaver’s Guild, young Elias crouched by a puddle that mirrored nothing but the sky. He was twelve. His hands, blackened to the wrist, trembled not from the cold, but from the rhythm of the loom...
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