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Submitted to Contest #297
“How did I get here?”The question echoed in my mind, a frantic whisper lost in the thunder’s roar. The stone beneath me was cold, rough, and slick with a dampness that wasn’t just rain.Before me, Aurelia Astraea, my Ember-mother, was bound to a coarse surface of the table. Her pale skin and hair stark against the dark. Torches, jammed into the corners of the vast chamber, flickered wildly, like trapped fireflies battling a suffocating darkness.The air hung thick and heavy, a cloying mix of the coppery tang of blood, the metallic chill of fea...
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