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Echo Bloom

## The Echo Bloom The lottery came at twenty-one. Everyone knew it. A chill settled over the cafeteria that day, even with the synthetic sun blazing down on the polymer tables. My name, Elara Vance, echoed through the hall—a tremor…

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The Gilded Fracture

## The Gilded Fracture The rain hammered Bruges, a relentless drumbeat against the cobblestones. Elias traced a finger across the cool glass of Saint Salvator’s cathedral, the seventeenth-century stained glass shimmering under the failing light. The scent of wet stone…

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Echo Bloom

## Echo Bloom The wind tasted of salt and dust, a familiar sting on Elara’s skin. She adjusted the woven sun-shield over her eyes, squinting at the shimmer rising from the Sapphire Waste. Ten moons it had been since the…

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The Glacier’s Whisper

## The Glacier’s Whisper The scent of chamomile and dust clung to the air, a familiar weight in Countess Elara’s salon. Flickering candlelight painted elongated shadows on the velvet drapes, highlighting the anxious lines etched around her eyes. Three women,…

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