The Distant Crown
The wool had gone grey in the places where the sun hit it, and the buttons, once mother-of-pearl, were now dull and chipped like old teeth. Elias Vane stood before the cracked mirror in his study, adjusting the collar of his academic robe with fingers that trembled slightly, not from age, but from the sheer weight of the silence that had settled over the village of Oakhaven. It was a silence...
0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 2 Views 0 Anteprima