The Distant Whispers
The sap was already on your hands before the accusation. It sat in the whorls of your palms, a thick, amber resin that smelled of pine and old blood, drying into a crust that cracked when you flexed your fingers. You were Elias Thorne, constable of the village, thirty-four years old, and you wanted to speak. But the Whispering Oak in the town square did not permit speech before judgment. The...
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