The Faded Chronicle

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The trowel bit into the wet clay, a sound like a knuckle cracking in a silent room. I was laying the third course of the north wall, my hands raw and white with lime, when the stone began to weep. It was not water. It was a black sap, thick and oily, oozing from the joints of the limestone blocks as if the rock were a bruised fruit. I wiped it on my trousers. The stain did not lift. It soaked...

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