The Distant Clue

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The Distant Clue

The mist was in the walls. I could hear it breathing, a wet, rhythmic rasp that matched the failing pulse of my father, Thomas, in the bed beside me. It was the year of our Lord 1348, and the city of York was dying not by the sword or the famine, but by a grief so thick it had become visible, a grey fog that seeped through the cracks in the mortar and settled on the tongue like ash. I am Elias,...

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