The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The pruning shears were heavy in Elias’s hands, the steel cold against his palm. He held a single, perfect yew leaf between his thumb and forefinger, inspecting the vein structure under the low, slanting light of the late afternoon. Outside, the wind moved through the branches with a dry, rasping sound, like old paper being shuffled. He was thirty-four, a master horticulturist, and he had been...

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