The Keeper of Candles
Agnes of Whitmore did not see the dead bodies being carried past her door, but she heard them. In the winter of 1348, the dead were carried every day. Sometimes twice a day. The sound was distinctive: the shuffle of bare feet on frozen dirt, the creak of a rough wooden board being borne on shoulders, the muffled voice of a priest who no longer believed in the words he was saying. Agnes heard...
0 Σχόλια 0 Μοιράστηκε 8 Views 0 Προεπισκόπηση