The Wistful Cipher
You are not human, or at least you have ceased to be entirely of the flesh that your mother wove from the loom of a cold, starless night in the attic, and now you sit in the high, vaulted chambers of the King’s inner court, where the air is so thin it tastes of iron and old blood, and you watch the candles burn down to nubs of wax that smell of rendered tallow and despair. The court is a web of...
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