The Wistful Cipher

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The fire did not start in the kitchen, as the reports later claimed, nor in the cellar where the wine barrels rotted. It began in the mind of Silas Vane, a man who had spent thirty years listening to the silence between heartbeats, and it consumed the stone hall of Blackwood Abbey in a single, suffocating night. Silas woke to the smell of ozone and wet ash. He was not burned, though the air...

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