The Wistful Ashes

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The Wistful Ashes

The hall was a cavern of breath, a humid, swirling nebula of skin and wool where the air tasted of roasted pork and the sharp, metallic tang of iron filings, and in the center of this chaotic, breathing mouth stood Wren, a boy of twelve who wore his silence like a heavy, velvet cloak that absorbed the light before it could touch his eyes. He was not eating. He was holding the Chit. It was a...

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