The Faded Frontier
The hall smells of roasted boar and stale wine, a thick, cloying scent that clings to the wool of your doublet and settles deep in the lungs. You stand in the shadow of the great oak table, your fingers stained black up to the knuckles with iron-gall ink, watching Lord Vane’s son, Julian, carve a haunch of meat with a knife that gleams under the tallow lights. The feast is a spectacle of...
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