The Distant Temple
The feast of the Blackwood estate was a grotesque spectacle of excess, a banquet laid out to celebrate the new lease on the property that had, in truth, been rotting for decades. You stood in the shadows of the gallery, your night watchman’s uniform stiff with dust, watching Lord Blackwood toast his investors with a glass of claret that stained his teeth red. The air was thick with the smell of...
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