The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

Jose Duarte was thirty-two and a city watchman in the medieval port of San Lorenzo, and I carried the weight of a sealed letter that would kill me if I did not deliver it by dawn. The ceramic shard, the Wistful Petal, was fused to my left palm, its surface smooth as river glass but hot enough to blister the skin beneath. It whispered the names of the dead, a low hum that vibrated in my teeth,...

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