The Distant Threshold

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The bell tolled. It was a sound like a bone snapping in the dark. Wren woke with a gasp, his lungs full of the taste of wet ash and iron. He lay in the straw. The straw was wet. It was cold. The cold bit into his ribs. He was seven. He knew this because he had counted the years since the fire. The fire that took his mother. The fire that took the warmth. He sat up. His knees ached. The pain was...

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