The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

The iron gates of the Abbey of Saint Cuthbert did not groan; they screamed. It was a high, thin shriek, like a bird caught in a wire, that tore through the mist hanging heavy over the moors. Elias Thorne, his hands bound by chains of polished silver that burned cold against his wrists, walked into the courtyard. He was a man of forty winters, his face a map of lines carved by years of silent...

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