The Distant Whispers
The banquet hall smelled of roasted pheasant and wet wool, a thick, cloying mixture that seemed to cling to the lining of my throat and the fabric of my waistcoat, a scent that I associated not with celebration but with the slow, grinding erosion of one’s own substance. I sat at the far end of the long oak table, my hands folded tightly in my lap, the fingers interlaced so firmly that the...
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