The Distant Promise
The mortar in the east wing was weeping, a thick, viscous ichor that smelled of rot and old copper, and I knew with a cold, technical precision that the symbiosis was failing. I stood in the center of the library, my hands pressed against the oak paneling, feeling the vibration of the house’s distress travel up through my palms and into the brittle lattice of my bones. It was November, 1893,...
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