The Distant Threshold
The ledger sat on the desk, its pages heavy with the weight of ink and error. I counted the salt grains. One, two, three. They crunched under my fingernails like broken teeth. By Friday, Mr. Vane demanded a clean audit, a house that was empty, a house that was worth nothing but the paper I signed. The walls of the estate office were bleeding. Not blood. Salt. White, crystalline veins spreading...
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