The Distant Whispers
The mist in Oakhaven did not roll in; it settled, a thick, grey wool that smelled of wet stone and old iron, clinging to the constable’s boots as he walked the familiar, muddy lane toward the manor. Elias Thorne, forty years old and carrying the weight of two decades in his aching joints, clutched a withered rowan branch in his right hand, the wood dry and brittle against his trembling palm, a...
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