The Distant Promise
You are standing in the cellar of the manor house, and the air is thick with the scent of wet stone and something older, sweeter, like the rot of lilies left too long in a vase. It is a space that does not breathe, a throat of brick and earth where the world above has been severed by the weight of the ceiling. You hold the bird in your hands. It is a sparrow, no larger than a child’s closed...
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