The Faded Attic

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The Faded Attic

The count of the dead is a slow, grinding thing, like the turning of a millstone in a dry bed. You have been counting them for nine years, Elias, and the number has not changed, yet the weight of it has doubled. In Blackwood, the fog does not rise; it is exhaled by the walls, a thick, gray breath that tastes of iron and old blood. You are thirty-two, a warden of the deep cells, and your hands...

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