The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

The silence in the basement of the Whitmore estate was not empty but heavy, a physical weight that pressed against the eardrums and settled in the marrow of the bone, a dense fog of dust and decaying paper that seemed to breathe in rhythm with the slow ticking of the clock on the mantle upstairs, which was long since broken and had stopped at three in the afternoon of a day no one could quite...

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