The Distant Garden

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Wen Zhu’s fingers were already bleeding where the tattered hem of his father’s cloak rubbed against his raw skin, yet he did not stop transcribing. The ink on the Silent Ledger was not black but a bruised violet that seemed to pulse with a rhythm independent of his own heartbeat, rearranging itself into characters that burned his retinas. He was thirty-two, a scribe in the Court of Whispers,...

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