The Pale Garden
The dream was of bread. Not the dry, grey rusk of the infirmary. Not the stale crusts scraped from the floor. This was a loaf. Whole. Golden. It sat on a table in a room that smelled of rain and iron. Elias woke with his mouth dry. He touched his lips. Crumbs. He sat up. The stone wall was cold. The Hall of St. Jude was not a hospital. It was a machine. A grinding, wet, white machine. And Elias...
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