The Wistful Crossroads
The feast was a lie told with silverware. We ate roast lamb and drank wine that tasted of vinegar and old blood, the air in the hall thick with the scent of tallow and the underlying, sweet rot of the plague that had settled in Oakhaven like a fog. I sat at the far end of the table, my hands wrapped around a clay cup, feeling the heat seep into my palms, while the elders watched me with eyes...
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