The Pale Exile
The silence in the house was not empty; it was heavy, a physical weight that pressed against the eardrums and settled in the chest. It was a silence built of years, of unspoken words and locked doors, and it smelled faintly of lavender and old dust. Eleanor sat in the wingback chair, her hands folded in her lap, staring at the window where the November rain blurred the garden into a smear of...
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