The Faded Shield

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The Faded Shield

I. I remember the sound before I remember the cold, a rhythmic tapping against the glass that sounded like knuckles on a coffin lid. I was forty-two years old, standing in the center of the ancestral hall, my hands shaking so badly I could not hold the deed to the property. The house was dying, its walls sweating with a damp that smelled of rot and old paper, and I was there to sell it, to pay...

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