The Wistful Saga
The ledger lay open on the desk, its pages stiff with age and the weight of ink that had dried into the paper like rust. You counted the hours, not the coins, for in Aethelgard the currency of the condemned was time, and you had spent forty-two years measuring your own against the clock. The fog pressed against the high windows of the magistrate’s chamber, a gray, wet wool that smelled of damp...
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