The Wistful Silence
The bell was not cursed, it was merely inconvenient, and Elias knew that the distinction was the only one that mattered to men who liked their rules written in stone rather than tested by sound. He stood in the archivist’s cellar, the air thick with the smell of damp wool and old paper, and watched the bronze object sit on its velvet cushion, humming a low note that vibrated in his teeth....
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