Years passed the way years do when no one is counting them anymore.Elara often thought, in the quiet moments before sleep, that this was the strangest gift the world had ever been given. Not freedom exactly, though it was that too. Something closer to trust. The kingdom had spent three hundred years measuring itself in days remaining, and now it simply lived, morning after morning, without anyone whispering how much time was left to spend.It had not been easy at first. She remembered the early seasons after the wheel ended, the confusion in every market square, the arguments in taverns about whether a world without numbers was a blessing or a curse. Some people wept with relief, freed at last from a countdown that had shadowed every choice they made. Others wept from fear, lost without the strange comfort of knowing exactly how their story would end. Elara understood both kinds of tears. She had spent her whole life on the far side of that same fear, the only person
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