The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The bell in the tower did not ring. It hung there, a dull tongue of iron, silent as a grave. I stood in the courtyard, the mud sucking at my boots, and watched the silence settle over the stone walls of the Abbey of St. Jude. The air was thick, heavy with the smell of wet limestone and the faint, cloying scent of rotting lilies that the mowers had left in the corners. I was not a knight. I was...

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