The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

The frost had not yet melted from the stone lintel of the ancient keep, and it was there, standing in the shadows of the doorway with his breath pluming in the cold, that I first saw the thing that was not quite a bird and not quite a shadow but something older, something that had worn the face of my brother like a mask. It spoke with his voice, a voice I knew so well it had the texture of the...

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