The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The decree arrived on a Tuesday, carried by a scribe whose ink-stained fingers trembled not from the cold of the northern wind but from the weight of the King’s will. Elias Vane, Keeper of the Royal Archives, stood before the glasshouse, where the last living specimen of the *Aethelgard* orchid clung to its trellis with a tenacity that defied the season. The plant was a biological anomaly, a...

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