The Wistful Throne
The dream always starts with the smell of lye and rot, a thick, sweet stench that clings to the back of your throat. You are seven years old, standing in the shadow of your father’s workbench, watching his hands move with the slow, deliberate grace of a surgeon. They are stained to the wrist in a deep, arterial red, the dye of the tannery seeping into the whorls of his palms, turning the skin...
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