The Wistful Throne
The shuttle sat in my palm, cold as a river stone, its wooden body slick with sweat and something darker, something that smelled of turned earth and old iron. I looked at the threads stretched across the loom, taut and white against the dim light of the workshop, and felt the weight of the debt pressing against my ribs like a stone in my chest. My name is Elara, and I was thirty-two years old,...
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