The Distant Metropolis
The wind in the oak was wrong, Thomas. It sounded like her asking for salt. I wrote that down in the ledger, my hand shaking so badly the ink bled into the parchment like a bruise. It was the third day of the new moon in the year of our Lord 1342, and I was forty years old, though I felt eighty. The constable’s pension was due in two months, and to secure it, I needed to report the village’s...
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