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The Books That Made Me
Do you remember your favorite book from childhood? The scent of old parchment and binding glue transported Evangeline Stormwright back through the decades as surely as any temporal enchantment. She knelt beside her daughter’s bed in their tower chamber overlooking Lumenvale’s Merchant Quarter, watching seven-year-old Celestine’s eyelids grow heavy with approaching sleep. The child’s fingers Continue reading
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Small Hands, Big Ideas
List three books that have had an impact on you. Why? The amber light of my study’s perpetual flame danced across parchment older than most kingdoms, casting shifting shadows that seemed to whisper secrets only I could decipher. My workshop, carved into the living heartwood of Lumenvale’s Great Library tree, hummed with the quiet energy Continue reading
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The Alchemy of Fear
What fears have you overcome and how? The crystalline formations that lined my lair caught the amber glow of evening light filtering through the cavern’s mouth, casting fractured rainbows across walls worn smooth by five centuries of my passage. I, Thessarian the Everburning, settled my massive form upon the treasure-bed that had been my resting Continue reading
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The Light That Guides Me Home
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life. The hammer’s final blow echoed through the forge like a prayer answered, its metallic song fading into the familiar silence that marked day’s end. Jonathan Ironwick set down his tools with hands that bore the honest stains of a craftsman’s devotion—fingertips blackened by Continue reading
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The Weight of Gold and Silence
How do you know when it’s time to unplug? What do you do to make it happen? The ledger’s ink had begun to blur before Aldric Goldweaver’s tired eyes, numbers dancing like restless spirits across parchment that seemed to mock his increasingly fumbling attempts at calculation. His weathered fingers, once steady enough to appraise the Continue reading
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