The Distant Whispers

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Thorne. The summons came not from a herald but from the cold weight of the iron key in the lock, a sound that cut through the antechamber like a blade through wet wool. Elias Thorne stood alone, the heavy crystal vial of Queen Isabella’s tonic trembling in his palm, its liquid dark as dried blood. He was forty years old, a man whose hands had held the pulse of kings and the breath of emperors,...

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