The Pale Garden
The mortar wept. It was a thin, viscous blackness, not the usual grey slurry of lime and sand, and it oozed from the joints of the Blackwood estate’s boundary wall with a slow, rhythmic pulse that Elias Thorne felt in his teeth before he saw it on his hands. He was forty years old, a mason of twenty years’ standing, and his life was a rigid architecture of duty built around the singular,...
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