The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The count began at three in the morning, not with a clock, but with the slow, rhythmic scraping of ash from the hearth, a task Elias Thorne had performed for twenty years without thought, until the grey dust felt like the skin of a dead thing sliding from his fingers. He was forty-two, a man whose spine had been set by the rigid architecture of military discipline, and he counted the shovels of...

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