The Distant Wound
The rain had not stopped for three days, turning the cobblestones of the village square into a slick, black mirror that reflected only the gray, swollen belly of the sky, and it was in this damp, suffocating silence that I carried the iron chest down the long, winding path from the manor house to the edge of the village, where the watchmen stood with their spears planted firmly in the mud,...
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