The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The warrant lay on the table, the ink still wet, a dark smear against the yellowed parchment. Elias Thorne stared at the name in the corner, his own, struck through with a single, decisive line. He did not pick it up. He sat in the magistrate’s office, the smell of damp wool and old stone filling his nostrils, and waited for the silence to break. Magistrate Alderman held the quip, his face a...

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