The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The hand was not his, or rather, it was his in the way that a ghost is a person, present in the architecture of the room but absent in the weight of the world, and it rested upon the gilded armrest of the throne with a stillness that suggested not peace but the terrifying suspension of a breath held for centuries, a breath that had been sucked into the very marrow of the stone floor beneath the...

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