The Distant Summer

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The air in the hall smells of wet stone and old blood. You stand by the great hearth, your hands trembling. Not from cold. From the weight of what you hold. A clay pot. Simple, unglazed, heavy with the residue of something thick and dark. You are a scholar of the old tongue, a keeper of words that no longer buy bread or shield skin. But here, in the high castle of Lord Thorne, words are...

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