The Wistful Throne
The manor did not sit on the hill; it leaned. It was a Victorian carcass of slate and rotting oak, its windows like cataracts staring down at the valley below. Twelve-year-old Elias stood on the cracked driveway, his knuckles white around the iron gate. He did not want to visit. He wanted to own. The inheritance was his right, a legal fact buried under the bureaucratic suffocation of the...
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