The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

The oak in the university quad was dying, and Elias Thorne knew it with the same visceral certainty that a man feels the first crack in a house foundation. At fifty-four, Elias was an archivist of sorts, though his shelves held no books but the slow, rotting biology of the *Quercus robur* that stood at the center of the campus, a tree he had watched grow since his father’s death ten years...

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