The Distant Whispers
The hand of the blackened oak branch trembled against Elara’s palm, a vibration that traveled up the radius and into the marrow of her wrist, as she stood before the high table of Aethelgard Keep, watching the tallow candles gutter in the draft. It was a small, ugly thing, a relic of her father’s final winter, stripped of bark and leaf until it looked less like wood and more like a charred...
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