The Faded Root

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The Faded Root

The soup was hot. That was the only thing I was certain of in the cold, gray hall of the King’s table. It sat in a silver bowl before me, a thick, amber liquid that smelled of thyme and something else, something metallic and old, like the blood of a horse that had died in a field long ago. I was twelve years old, and I was hungry. Not the polite hunger of a child who has finished his lessons,...

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