The Wistful Ashes
The air in the Hall of Eternal Judgment did not smell of incense, as the old texts promised, but of wet stone and the metallic tang of ozone, a scent that clung to the back of the throat like a bad memory. I stood at the foot of the Obsidian Staircase, my hands trembling not from cold, though the draft from the high, shutterless windows bit deep into my woolen coat, but from the sheer, crushing...
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