The Pale Bridge
The letter lay on the rotting floorboards of the attic, its ink faded to the color of dried blood, and Elias Thorne read it again, his fingers tracing the brittle edge of the paper as if it were a wound he had yet to suture. It was a notice of seizure, signed by Magistrate Halloway, dated three days prior, demanding the immediate surrender of the Blackwood estate for the alleged arson of the...
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