The Distant Nightmare
The silver clasp was cold against Elara’s throat, a weight that did not belong to metal. "Take it," her father had said, his voice cracking like dry kindling in the hearth. "It is your mother’s. It is yours." Elara had not taken it. She had let him press it into her palm, the silver biting into the soft skin. The village of Oakhaven was behind her, a smear of thatch and smoke under the grey sky...
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