The Golden Echoes
The water in the basin was cold enough to sting the knuckles. Margaret wiped the silt from the copper bowl, her movements precise, repetitive, a ritual born of habit rather than faith. The cellar was damp, smelling of wet stone and the faint, sweet rot of the apples stacked in the corner. Above her, the village of Oakhaven slept, or pretended to. In the old days, before the Council took the...
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