The Distant Promise

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The glove was velvet, the color of dried blood, and it smelled of the cedar chest where it had slept for ten years. Elias pulled it on, the fabric tight against his knuckles, a second skin that chafed where the thumb had worn thin. He was thirty, and the castle of Ashworth stood behind him, a gray monolith against the pale sky of 1348. He did not look back. He had a job to do. The ledger was...

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