The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The mud was thick here. It tasted of iron and old rain. I held the ledger against my chest. The cover was soft leather, worn smooth by generations of hands that no longer walked this earth. Inside, the pages were not paper. They were thin sheets of bone, etched with names in ink that shimmered like oil on water. I was a Warden. Or so the uniform said. The tunic was gray, stiff with salt and...

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