The Wistful Petal
The compass lay in Elias’s palm, its brass casing cold against the sweat of his grip, the needle trembling with a frantic, purposeless oscillation. He was forty years old, a cartographer for the estate of Lord Ashworth, and he had come to the Whispering Marsh in the year of our Lord 1347 to draw a line that would secure his family’s debt. The debt was a ledger of ink and iron: three hundred...
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