The Faded Paradox

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The Faded Paradox

The air in the gene-bank cold room tasted of rust and old ice. I stood there, twelve years old and shaking, while the Sun King sat on his throne of frozen pipes, his face smooth as a polished stone. He did not look at me. He looked at the reliquary beside him, a glass case where my mother’s hand floated in a gel that pulsed with a slow, wet heartbeat. "Your Majesty," I said, my voice thin in...

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