The Distant Nightmare

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The seal was broken, the wax cracked like old skin, and I read the decree with trembling hands, my twelve-year-old fingers stained with the soot of the obsidian palace’s corridors. It promised my father’s release from the debtors’ prison, a document heavy as a stone, carried out of the shifting halls of King Alaric’s court where the walls whispered my name in a voice like grinding gravel. I had...

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