The Pale Echo
The rain against the glass of the conservatory sounds like a thousand small fingers tapping, demanding entry, demanding to be let in. You sit in the high-backed chair, the leather worn smooth by years of other people’s secrets, and you hold the object in your lap. It is a simple thing, a brass compass, tarnished by salt air and time, but its needle does not point north. It points to the cellar....
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