The Faded Root
The petition in your hand is not paper, Elias, it is a bone. Chancellor Vane did not look up from his desk when he said this, his fingers tracing the edge of a ledger with the precision of a man counting coins he did not own. The Hall of Mirrors smelled of ozone and old sweat, a metallic tang that coated the back of Elias’s throat before the visual chaos of the room even registered. He stood...
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