The Distant Garden

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The King’s cough was not a sound, but a texture, a wet tearing that seemed to pull the air in the chamber through its own skin. I stood before him, my hands steady, my mind a ledger of debts and medical texts, knowing that the only cure for the wasting that had hollowed him out was a procedure so violent it would likely kill us both. He looked at me, his face a map of gray veins, and asked if I...

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