The Faded Guest
The rain had been falling for three days, a cold, persistent drizzle that turned the gravel path of the St. Jude’s Orphanage into a slurry of mud and decayed leaves. Elias Thorne stood in the doorway of the laundry room, his breath misting in the unheated air, watching the steam rise from the industrial dryer where the stolen silver locket of the late Matron Halloway lay fused to the collar of...
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