The Wistful Throne

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The smell of burnt honey hung in the air, thick and cloying, a sweet rot that clung to the back of Aldous’s throat. He sat on the edge of the stone dais, his robes, once the deep indigo of a scholar’s dignity, now stained with the dust of the earth he had been digging. Around him, the cavern breathed. It was not a cave in the way a man thinks of a cave, dark and dead, but a living throat,...

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