The Pale Garden
"You are late, boy." The High Steward’s voice was dry, like sand dragged over stone. I stood before the desk in the semaphore station, the one perched on the cliff edge where the wind stripped the paint from the wood. My hands were shaking, not from the cold, but from the weight of the folio I carried. It was my father’s ledger. Or what remained of it. The Whispering Ink, that strange, viscous...
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