The Distant Summer
The dream was not of the night, but of the ledger. It was a heavy, leather-bound thing, its spine cracked and oozing a dark, viscous fluid that smelled of iron and old rain. Arthur Penhaligon lay in the narrow cot in the dormitory, his eyes open to the gray pre-dawn light, watching the ink spread across the pages in his mind’s eye. In the dream, the numbers did not add up. They never did. They...
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