The Wistful Throne
The tremor in your left hand was not the cold, though the air in the boiler room tasted of iron filings and wet ash. It was the fever breaking, a residual heat that made your skin prickle against the wool of your uniform, and it was the memory of the execution, two years gone and still fresh as a cut on the tongue. You stood before the rusted valve wheel, your fingers hovering over the cold...
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