The Distant Garden

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The feast was a lie dressed in linen and silver. You sat at the head of the long table in the town hall of Oakhaven, the air thick with the smell of roasted pheasant and stale wine, while the townspeople feasted on your guilt. Mara sat beside you, her cheek hollow, her skin the color of parchment left too long in the sun. You were Elias Thorne, forty-two, the master arborist, the man who spoke...

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