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Ash-glass and the long apprenticeshipcomplete
The staircase to the upper workroom is one hundred and seventeen steps, and you have counted them every morning for nine years. Today the counting feels different — not habitual but desperate, the way a person counts the beats between light2 reads0 likes
Ash-glass and the long apprenticeshipcomplete
You have been in this room before — the topmost workroom, where the air tastes of copper and the windows are cut too narrow for the view. Nine years of bringing Yrenne her meals here, of setting down trays she forgot to eat from, of learnin3 reads0 likes
The duelist who lost on purposecomplete
The air in Court Three tastes of chalk dust and old sweat. You've stood on this strip of packed earth forty-two times now, and the marks beneath your boots are the same ones you've always made — the careful scuffs of a man stepping back, gi3 reads0 likes
A garden of borrowed yearscomplete
You count them again. You close your eyes, open them, and count a third time because the number does not change and you need it to. Sixty-one. The stems hang above you on the oldest bough like small accusing fingers — three of them, pale wh2 reads0 likes