The Distant Whispers
The bread is dry. I press my thumb into the crust and it crumbles, releasing a dust that tastes of chalk and old wood. It is not the bread I expected. It is not the soft, white loaf that Mother used to bring from the village baker, warm and yielding as a sleeping child. This is stone. This is earth. I am in the cellar. The air is thick with the scent of damp wool and fermenting grain. It smells...
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