The Faded Apartment
Parvin Zandi’s hands were stained with the black ink of the genealogy, the nib of his reed pen scraping against the papyrus as he copied the Duke’s lineage for the forty-third time. He was not merely writing names; he was binding a curse to the paper, a task that felt less like scribe work and more like digging a well in dry earth, where every shovelful of dirt was a breath held in the throat....
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