The Pale Garden
The mortar was fresh and wet, clinging to your fingers like the blood of a newborn lamb, and the weight of the trowel was a familiar ache in your shoulder that you had learned to love as one loves a chronic pain. You were not building a wall; you were sealing a mouth. The Citadel of St. Jude’s, a bastion of grey stone rising from the mist-choked valley, did not tolerate gaps in its defenses,...
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