The Faded Quadrant

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The cough was a wet, rattling thing that lived in Thomas’s chest like a trapped bird. He sat on the edge of his straw pallet in the infirmary, the stone walls weeping condensation that smelled of mildew and old fear. Outside, the wind tore at the branches of the Great Oak, the Quadrant, which stood in the center of the cloister like a skeletal god. Thomas was forty-two, but his hair had gone...

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