The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The stone of Blackwood Hall did not merely stand; it breathed. Elias, a chandler whose hands were perpetually stained with tallow and grease, pressed his ear against the corridor wall, feeling the low, rhythmic thrum that the locals called the Whispering Walls. It was not a ghost story, not truly. It was the sound of a foundation shifting, of pipes groaning under pressure, of a house slowly...

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