The Wistful Cipher

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The feast in the Hall of Whispers did not smell of roasted swan or spiced wine, as one might expect in the high courts of the old world, but rather of wet earth, crushed violets, and the sharp, metallic tang of iron that sits too long in a bloodied vein. It was a banquet of shadows, a gathering of the living and the almost-dead, where the candles burned with a pale, sickly light that cast no...

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