The Golden Visit
The soup was cold. It sat in the iron bowl, a grey sludge of boiled turnip and rendered fat, steaming faintly in the drafty hall. Elara stared at it. The steam curled like a ghost trying to escape its casket. She did not eat. She waited. The Hall of Verdicts was not a place of light. It was a place of shadows carved by firelight. The walls were stone, slick with the breath of centuries. Above,...
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