The Wistful Dinner

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The parchment lay on the oak table, its edges curling slightly in the damp air of the antechamber. You signed your name, the ink drying instantly, black and sharp, and handed the document to the Chancellor. He did not look at you. He looked only at your hands, turning them over as one might inspect a horse’s teeth, searching for the flaw. You were thirty years old, a scribe from the northern...

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