The Faded Root
Elias Thorne, the council clerk whispered, looking up from the stack of tax ledgers as if the name itself were a debt he owed. I stood in the doorway of the municipal office, my hands still black with the graphite dust of the library’s sub-basement, and felt the weight of the silence in the room press against my eardrums. The air in Blackwood was thick with the smell of coal smoke and wet wool,...
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