The Distant Promise

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"You have no right to be here, Kavanagh." The steward’s voice was a dry scrape, like sand on slate. I did not answer. I stood in the cellar, the air thick with the damp rot of peat and old stone, my left hand clamped against my thigh. It was bleeding. Not a cut, not a scratch, just a slow, steady weep from the palm, as if the skin had simply decided to give up. I had come for the deed to the...

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