The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The count of hours remaining was three. I checked my watch, the glass face cracked but the hands steady, ticking out the final minutes of my leverage. The fog in Oakhaven did not roll; it pressed, a damp, heavy wool against the skin, smelling of rot and old copper. I stood before the magistrate’s door, clutching a leather satchel that contained the only thing worth more than my life: Clara’s...

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