The Pale Tower
The bread was hard as stone, wrapped in a cloth that smelled of damp wool and old blood. Wren sat on the cold floor of the cellar, his back against the rough-hewn wall, and stared at the loaf. It was not a gift. It was a weapon. Or perhaps a test. The air in the underground room was thick with the scent of mildew and the faint, cloying sweetness of rotting apples from the bin in the corner....
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