The Distant Temple
The letter lay on the workbench, its seal broken, the ink still wet enough to smear if you breathed on it. It was a bill for the funeral, itemized with a precision that felt like a knife against the throat. You signed it. Your hand did not shake. Not yet. The shop smelled of brass filings and the stale, sweet rot of the lilies Mara had bought the day before she died. You folded the letter into...
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