The Wistful Cipher
The rain fell on the obsidian ramparts of Aethelgard not as water, but as a silencing fog, erasing the distinction between the sky and the stone. Thomas Bradshaw stood at the edge of the high balcony, his hands trembling not from the cold, which was a physical absence, but from a fear that had calcified in his marrow over twenty years. Below, in the courtyard where the mist swirled like the...
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