The Pale Dance
The rain had not stopped for three days. It fell in sheets of grey wool, soaking into the thatch of the cottages, seeping into the bones of the men who worked the fields. Elias stood by the window of the chapel, watching the mud turn to slurry. He was old now. His joints clicked like dry twigs. He was the village’s keeper of accounts, the man who knew how much grain was owed, how much labor was...
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