The Pale Bridge
The lantern was cold. It had been cold for three days, since the night my brother took it from the hall table and did not come back. I held the brass frame in my left hand, the glass pane cracked like a frozen lake. The light inside was not fire. It was a pale, swirling mist, a ghost of illumination that smelled of old rain and iron. I am a finder of lost things. That is my trade, or perhaps my...
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