The Wistful Throne

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The mortar in the east wall was weeping. Not leaking, weeping, a slow, viscous exudate of grey slurry that smelled of wet earth and old iron. Elias Thorne, forty-two and the town clerk for the last nineteen years, pressed his thumb into the damp. It was cold, colder than the December air outside, and it felt less like stone and more like the flesh of something bruised. He wiped his hand on his...

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