The Faded Quadrant
The frost has crept into the bones of the Blackspire again. I sit in the warden’s keep, my hands trembling so violently I cannot steady the knife to cut the last of the hardtack. The rot in my nerves is not a metaphor. It is a physical thing, a cold wire tightening around my sinews. I am fifty-two years old, and I have served this stone fortress for thirty. The citadel hums beneath my feet, a...
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