The Wistful Mountain

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The parchment lay flat on the oak table, its surface dry and waiting, a sheet of white silence in a room that smelled of iron filings and old dust. I was twelve years old, small for my age, and I sat in the shadow of the High Court of Aethelgard, where the light from the high windows fell in slants that turned the air into a visible, dusty gold. My father, a man whose hands had once been steady...

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