The Distant Whispers
The ink did not smell of iron, but of wet slate and the deep, rotting sweetness of crushed madder root. I held my left hand over the basin in the cellar, watching the dark fluid spiral into the stagnant water, and I knew that the Guild Master had marked me. "It is a curse," I said to no one, my voice sounding thin in the damp stone walls, "a punishment for asking to buy back what is mine." The...
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