The Distant Threshold
The rain did not fall so much as it hung, a suspended curtain of gray wool over the manor. I stood at the threshold of the library, my boots caked in the red clay of the lower fields. The smell of wet stone and old paper was thick in my throat. Inside, the air was still, preserved by the heavy oak doors that had not opened for a decade. I was an exile in my own bloodline, returning to the seat...
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