The Wistful Grid

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The Wistful Grid

The soup was cold. It sat in the iron bowl, a grey sludge of turnips and rendered fat, unmoving as a dead lake. Sir Aldric did not touch it. He stared at the surface, watching the congealment of his own breath. The Great Hall of the Stonekeep was silent, save for the tick of the grandfather clock and the distant, muffled thunder of the storm outside. You are trembling, I wrote in the margin of...

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