The Distant Legend
The bell tolled at dawn. Not the soft chime of a parish morning, but the deep, iron-throated groan of the City Hall tower. It shook the dust from the rafters of our attic. It shook the teeth in my skull. We were children then. Small things. I was seven. My brother, Silas, was ten. He had hands like hooks and eyes that held a secret weight. The smoke came first. A gray veil over the...
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