The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

The iron key was already in your hand before you knew you had reached for it. It was a heavy thing, cold as river stone, its teeth worn smooth by generations of anxious fingers. You stood in the center of the Grand Hall of Ashworth Manor, the air thick with the smell of wet wool and extinguished candles. The room was vast, a cathedral of stone and shadow where the chandeliers hung like frozen...

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