The Wistful Crossroads
The nib of the quill is cold against your thumb, a sliver of goose feather stiffened by years of use and dried blood. You hold it like a surgeon’s scalpel, trembling not from fear but from the sheer, crushing weight of the ledger resting before you, its leather cover cracked and smelling of wet wool and old iron. The year is unmarked in the calendar, for time in the Pale King’s court does not...
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