The Pale Bonsai
The feast is a lie. The candles in the Hall of Whispers are made of rendered fat, and the smoke chokes the throat. You are twelve, Elias, and you sit at the far end of the long oak table, your fingers stained with the black ink of your trade. The High Archivist, a man named Thomas Bradshaw, sits at the head, his face a mask of polite boredom. He eats the roasted pheasant. You watch the bone in...
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