The Wistful Ashes

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The Wistful Ashes

The feast was a wound in the dark. Candles. Hundreds of them. They burned low and thick, dripping wax onto the stone floor like frozen blood. The air smelled of roasting meat and old sweat. It was the year of the Ash, or so the bells claimed. No one remembered the year before. The calendar had rotted. Only the hunger remained. Elias sat at the edge of the long table. His hands were still. They...

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