The Faded Shield

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The Faded Shield

The ink is cold, Elias. It has always been cold. I set the quill down on the slate, the tip trembling with a residue that smelled of burnt copper and old blood. The High Court of Aethelgard did not pay in gold; it paid in tenure, in the quiet dignity of a pension that would allow Mara to stop mending other men’s coats for pence. I had twenty years of service in my ledger, and forty-two years in...

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