The Wistful Mountain
The letter lay on the oak desk, its seal broken, the ink still damp where Lord Vane had signed it. You read the decree twice, your eyes tracing the sharp, angular script that demanded the immediate incineration of the botanical specimens in the high-altitude greenhouse by the winter solstice. The paper was thick, cream-colored, heavy with the weight of the Crown’s authority, and beneath it lay...
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