The Pale Bonsai
The ink is spreading again, Elias, you absolute fool, the Grand Chancellor’s voice cut through the hum of the archive like a blade through wet silk, and I looked down at the Pale Bonsai, its leaves trembling with a black, viscous fluid that smelled of iron and old grief, while my own hands, stained to the wrist with the same dark sap, hung limp at my sides. I had told him, moments before, that...
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