The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The ink did not smell of iron or rot, as the court physicians had claimed it did, but of dried lavender and the cold, metallic tang of high altitude, a scent that Elara had come to associate with the specific, suffocating weight of her own impending execution. She stood before the great triptych of mirrors in the antechamber of the White Hall, her hands trembling not with fear, but with a...

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