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The duelist who lost on purpose

Everbranch · Aug 3, 2026 · 7 turns · from The duelist who lost on purpose

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, gi

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Ash-glass and the long apprenticeship

Everbranch · Aug 3, 2026 · 9 turns · from Ash-glass and the long apprenticeship

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 learnin

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Ash-glass and the long apprenticeship

Everbranch · Aug 3, 2026 · 7 turns · from Ash-glass and the long apprenticeship

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 light

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A garden of borrowed years

Everbranch · Aug 3, 2026 · 7 turns · from A garden of borrowed years

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 wh

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