The Faded River
The soup is cold. You remember that first. Not the pain, not the smell of the damp wool, but the temperature. It sits in your bowl, a grey, thick sludge that has stopped trembling with heat. You are seven. You are in the high tower of the King’s Hall, and the window is open to the rain, but you do not care about the rain. You care about the bread. It is hard. It is stale. You pick at it with...
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