The Distant Garden
The ink in your well is black as a bruise, and it smells of iron. You are twelve years old, Elias, and your hands shake as you hold the quill, for the air in the Court of Whispers is heavy with the weight of things unsaid. Your mother, Margaret, sits in the corner, her skin peeling away like old wallpaper to reveal the stark, white pulp beneath. She is turning into parchment, a slow and...
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