The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The ledger on the desk held forty-two hours of coughing, each entry scratched in Clara’s fading hand with a quill that cost more than the ink it held. Elias counted the marks, his breath shallow and wet in the throat, while the house of Blackwood Manor leaned in, its floorboards creaking like the joints of an old man shifting in a chair. He was twelve, though he felt the weight of a man who had...

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