The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The blade was cold, a strip of steel that seemed to suck the heat from the air in the small, windowless room. Elias held his foot up, the skin around the big toe a bruised, swollen purple, weeping a dark fluid that smelled of copper and old rot. He did not look at his daughter. He looked at the wall, where the wallpaper, a faded pattern of ivy, peeled away in long, dry strips. "Cut it out," he...

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