Chapter 10
Chapter 10

Chapter 10

The Archon’s Favorite Muse

The bone stylus did not waver. For six months, Evelina had rehearsed this precise mechanical motion in the freezing, tallow-lit cellar of the Lower Silt. She had driven wooden pegs into sandbags; she had stabbed sheep carcasses through chalked targeting circles; she had calibrated the exact force required to pierce…

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