The Pale Bonsai
I woke to the scent of wet soil and the sound of a pen scratching against parchment, a rhythmic, dry rasp that seemed to emanate not from my own hand, but from the very air of the chamber, thick with the dust of centuries and the heavy, unyielding weight of bureaucratic silence. The room was a pale rectangle, bounded by walls of stone so old they had forgotten their original color, stripped of...
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