The Faded Quadrant
The ice broke at dawn. It did not shatter with a roar, but with a wet, cracking sigh, like a bone snapping under a slow weight. I stood on the bank of the river, my feet sinking into the black mud, watching the fragments drift away. The water was grey and cold, indifferent to the season. I had come here to die, or so I thought. I had come to surrender the map. The palace stood on the hill, a...
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