The Pale Circus
The bell tower cracked first. It was a sound like a rib breaking inside a chest. Then the stone fell. Wren was in the chapel. She was twelve. Her boots were muddy. The mud had come from the road outside, from the place where the rain turned the dirt into a slurry of grey and black. She was looking at the floor. The floor was marble. It was white. It was clean. It was not like the road. The...
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