The Wistful Silence
The warrant lay on the damp oak table, its ink still wet, a black stain spreading across the parchment like a bruise forming under skin. Silas Vane, a constable of forty years whose uniform hung loose on a frame worn thin by damp and duty, stared at the name scrawled in the clerk’s hurried hand: Elara Thorne. The room was cold, a specific, biting chill that seeped through the floorboards and...
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