The Wistful Asylum
The feast was a lie, a shimmer of light that did not warm. You sat at the long table in the Hall of Echoes, the air thick with the smell of yeast and old dust. Your hands trembled as you reached for the loaf. It was golden, perfect, and it cost you your mother’s face. You tore it apart. The taste was ash and honey. By the time you swallowed the last crumb, the woman who had sung you to sleep...
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