The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The list of debts was written in iron gall ink, the characters sharp and black against the yellowed parchment. It detailed three years of unpaid wages, the cost of the vellum, and the interest accrued on the loan I had taken from the Abbey to bury my wife. I signed it with a hand that trembled, not from age, but from the cold that had settled into my bones since the night I last dreamed of the...

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