The Wistful Silence

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The count was simple, though the weight of it was not: three hundred and twelve days since the last time I saw the sun, and I had marked each one by scratching a line into the damp clay of the cell wall with the tip of a broken nail, a tally that had grown so thick it looked like the furrowed earth of a neglected field. I sat on the cold stone floor, my back pressed against the rough-hewn wall...

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