The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The light in the Fens does not rise so much as it is pulled up, a slow, gray exhalation from the water that traps the smoke of the peat fires in a low, choking ceiling. I remember the morning the Abbot came for the boy, because the light was wrong then, a sickly amber that turned the stone floor of the barracks into a floor of old honey. I was thirty-two, a sergeant in a uniform that fit a man,...

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