The Distant Journey

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The parchment was wet, the ink of the seal bleeding into the heavy cotton paper as Sergeant Elias Thorne held it up to the light of the oil lamp. It was a writ of execution, signed by Lord Vane, the magistrate of the Abbey lands, ordering the hanging of three children from the village of Oakhaven for the crime of stealing grain. Thorne’s hand, thick-knuckled and stained with the grime of his...

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