The Wistful Atlas
The rope bit into Elias’s neck before the Abbot’s voice did. It was a tight, woolen thing, smelling of damp stone and old sweat. Below, the roots of the Weeping Oak were already moving, a slow, hydraulic push against the floor of the execution yard. Elias hung there, his boots scraping the gravel, his hands bound at his back. He was forty-two years old, and he had killed his own son three years...
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