The Distant Promise

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The bell in the tower of St. Jude’s College did not ring at dawn, as it had for three centuries, but shattered. The sound was not a crash of bronze, but a wet, grinding snap, as if the metal had become flesh and torn itself apart. From the broken mouth of the bell, a thick, viscous fog poured down the stone steps, smelling of iron and rotting lavender. It settled over the quadrangle, obscuring...

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