The Wistful Asylum

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The ink was counted by the drop, twelve for the first line, a ritual so precise it felt like a trap. Elias sat in the attic of the Archivist’s tower, the air thick with the smell of mildew and dried oak shavings, his quill hovering over the parchment of the *Book of Mirrors*. He was twelve years old, an apprentice to Thomas Bradshaw, a man whose silence was louder than the wind rattling the...

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