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The Ritual of Words and Steam
The brass kettle sang its familiar song as steam escaped through the delicate spout, filling Magistra Cordelia Inkwell’s modest study with the rich aroma of Northwood coffee beans. Five-thirty in the morning, the same time she had risen every day for the past twelve years—early enough to claim the world’s silence before Lumenvale began its Continue reading
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The Riddle of Sustenance
The evening mist rolled through the ancient arches of the Eternal Library like the breath of sleeping gods, carrying with it the scent of aged parchment and forgotten wisdom. Aethys the Riddlekeeper settled her massive leonine form more comfortably among the carved stone pillars that had supported this sanctuary of knowledge for over three millennia, Continue reading
Chadwick Rye 