The Distant Threshold
The feast was a riot of salted pork and dark bread, a communal table stretched out under the low, soot-stained rafters of the manor house, where the air smelled of wet wool and the sharp, metallic tang of old blood. Cael sat at the edge of the long bench, his hands resting on his knees, watching the steam rise from the tureen as if it were a ghost he could not quite grasp. He was twelve years...
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