The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The carriage wheels ground against the gravel drive, a sound like teeth grinding in a skull, as I step down into the wet mist of Blackwood Manor. I am forty years old, a master clockmaker from Leeds, and my hands, which have repaired the timepieces of half the county, tremble not from the cold but from the specific, hollow fear of knowing I have been summoned into a trap. Lord Vane stands on...

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