The Wistful Crossroads
The smell hit Elias first, a thick, wet rot of wet plaster and old iron that clung to the back of his throat. It was the scent of the crypts, dragged up into the light by the shovels. He stood in the vaulted hall of Lord Vane’s new keep, the dust motes dancing in the shafts of weak afternoon sun. Forty years of laying stone had left his hands rough as sandstone, but today they trembled. He...
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