The Pale Bonsai
The letter from the Ministry of Antiquities arrived on a Tuesday, its wax seal pressed with the cold, unyielding weight of state authority, and I read it three times before I realized that the specific item listed for immediate cataloging was not a scroll or a sword, but the Pale Bonsai, a ceramic vessel of such delicate, terrifying provenance that it had been locked in the basement vaults for...
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