The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The bell of St. Jude’s did not ring. It clattered. Elian sat in the archive room, the air thick with the scent of dry rot and iron. He was twelve. His fingers, stained black with the residue of the ledger ink, trembled over the spine of the bound volume. The leather was cracked. The gold leaf had flaked away, leaving only the dull, gray skin of the binding exposed. It was a relic of the old...

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