The Golden Suspect

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The wren was dead in my hand, its chest still, its feathers the color of old brass, yet it sang. I was scrubbing the blood from my knuckles with lye soap, the water running brown down the drain of the barracks sink, when the first note pierced the silence of the room. It was not a bird’s song, not in the way we understand sound; it was a vibration that started in the marrow of my wrist and...

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