The Wistful Campus
Fourteen hours. That is how long the axe has been in your hand. The wood of the oak is heavy, dense with rot, and the mist clings to the blade like wet wool. You are Elias, thirty-two, a warden of the high pines, and you are trying to kill a tree that refuses to die. The blight is a black mold, a creeping stain that eats the heartwood. The village calls it the Whisper. They say it spreads when...
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