The Distant Whispers

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One, two, three, four, five. Elias counted the cracks in the plaster above his head, his breath fogging in the cellar air. Six, seven, eight. The damp was not merely in the stone; it was in the marrow of his bones, a cold that had settled there three days ago when the garrison moved him from the infirmary to this sub-basement of the old Cornish mill. He wanted to survive the night. He wanted to...

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