Darius BeginsHe started writing on a Saturday, which was arbitrary and not arbitrary — Saturdays in the keep had a slightly different rhythm from the work week, a loosening of the schedule's grip, and he needed that loosening for the kind of writing that required something other than administrative precision.He sat at the study desk with a new notebook — different from Elara's, narrower, with a sturdier cover in the way that he chose things: built for endurance rather than elegance — and he opened it to the first page and wrote: The Account from the Other Side. For Mira, who asked. For Elara, who wrote first. For the record.Then he sat with the blank page for a long time.He had been thinking about what to write for two weeks, since Mira had asked him and he had said yes. He had been thinking in the way he thought about difficult things — not circling them, not avoiding them, but approaching from a specific angle until the angle was right and the approach could begin.The angle he
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