The Wistful Show

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The Wistful Show

The ink in my quill was still wet when I realized the petition had been rejected, the parchment slick with a residue that felt less like paper and more like the skin of a dead thing. I was twelve years old, a scribe of the third rank in the Ironwood Court, and my hands trembled not from the cold of the scriptorium but from the sheer, crushing weight of the bureaucratic machinery that had just...

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