The Distant Machine
The banquet hall smelled of boiled wool and iron. It was not a scent of feast, but of containment, a heavy, metallic tang that coated the back of my throat and refused to dissolve. We sat in a circle on the cold stone floor, the candles guttering in the draft that leaked through the cracks in the walls, their light trembling like a dying pulse. In the center of the circle, on a slab of granite,...
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