The Wistful Asylum

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Chapter One The fog sat on the slate roofs of Aberystwyth like a wet wool blanket, heavy and grey, pressing the town into a silence that felt physical. I was forty-two, a scholar of medieval bestiaries, and I held a leather-bound manuscript that whispered my name. It was a sound only I could hear, a dry rustle in the dark of my study, growing louder whenever I lied to myself about my sanity. My...

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