The Faded Root

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The Faded Root

The bone was in my mouth. It tasted of iron and wet dust. I did not spit it out. I held it there, cold and jagged against the roof of my mouth, a foreign tooth in my own face. The court was silent. A silence so thick it had texture, like velvet dragged over gravel. I was twelve. I stood before the High Chancellor, a man whose face was a map of old, dry scars. He did not look at me. He looked at...

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