The Distant Machine

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The roof gives way at dawn, and you are standing in the kitchen with the dust of centuries settling on your shoulders like snow. It is not a collapse of wood and stone so much as a surrender. The great oak beams, which have held the weight of the Pemberton estate for three hundred years, finally decide that they are tired. You hear the groan before you see the fall, a deep, tectonic shudder...

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