The Wistful Ashes

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The Wistful Ashes

The parchment was slick with sweat, the ink still wet and black as a bruise, and I held it with a hand that refused to stop trembling. It was a writ of pardon, or rather, a draft of one, my name scrawled at the bottom in a script that looked less like handwriting and more like the scratching of a dying bird. I had written it for Elara, my wife, who sat in the damp cellar of the Bastille for a...

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