The Wistful Atlas
The dried wisteria vine lies in your palm, brittle as a bird’s bone, its scent long since leached out by the damp cellar where it has rested for twenty years. You turn it over, checking for cracks, for the faintest sign of decay that might match the tremor in your left hand, a tremor that has been growing louder, more insistent, like a clock winding down. You are Elara, forty-two, the Duke’s...
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