The Pale Garden
The knife slipped in my hand, a thin red line appearing on the Duke’s forearm, and I did not flinch. I was thirty-two years old, and my fingers were already trembling with a rigor that had nothing to do with the cold air of the chamber. The Duke, a man of sixty winters, lay on the table with his leg bound in linen that had turned the color of old tea. The rot had set in deep, a blackening of...
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