The Distant Threshold
The rain had not stopped in three days, and the ledger was still open on the desk, its pages swollen with damp, the ink bleeding into a brown smear that looked less like a record of debt and more like a bruise. Arthur Penhaligon sat in the clerk’s office of the Oakhaven Mill, his hands resting on the cold wood, feeling the grit of old sawdust under his fingernails, a texture that had become as...
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