The Wistful Atlas

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The Wistful Atlas

The hand is the map. I know this now. It was not always so. The skin peeled back. Red. Raw. The bone beneath was white. Like chalk. Like bone. I held it. I held it for hours. The room was cold. The air smelled of copper and rain. Outside, the palace slept. Or did it? The walls breathed. The floorboards groaned. I was the Captain. Or I had been. Until the hand left my body. Until the hand became...

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