The queen’s vizier — a sly thing named — approached Thmyl with a deal. “Erase the queen’s sorrow,” the vizier signed, “and she will give you the Water of Naming — the only force that can unweave the curse on your own lost name.”
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Thmyl had forgotten his true name long ago, in a drbh accident he himself caused. He walked into the queen’s hall. She sat on a throne of petrified tears. Her thoughts wrapped around him like cold silk. The queen’s vizier — a sly thing named