The Distant Nightmare
The rain in the valley did not wash; it rotted. It seeped into the mortar of Blackwood Manor, turning the stone walls into a sponge of cold and damp that smelled of wet wool and old blood. Thomas Bradshaw stood by the hearth, watching the fire die. He was thirty years old, his hands rough from ploughing and his face etched with a fatigue that sleep could not touch. His father, old Edmund, lay...
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