The Pale Garden
The bell did not ring so much as it screamed, a high, thin shriek that tore through the heavy, stagnant air of the library’s east wing, shattering the silence that had settled over the university like a burial shroud. I was standing at the head of the long oak table, my hands trembling so violently that the ink in my fountain pen had begun to bleed, spreading a dark, wet stain across the...
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