The Distant Cartograph
The ring is cold. You know this before you touch it. It sits on the velvet tray, a band of tarnished silver twisted into a shape that looks like a knot, or perhaps a tongue. You have held it for three days. It is heavy. It is warm now, bleeding heat into your palm. You are in the antechamber. The air smells of beeswax and damp stone. Outside, the rain hammers the high windows. The King is...
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