The Wistful Silence

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The ink on the deed was still wet when I found it, glistening like a bruise under the gaslight. I had been in Silas’s library for three days, and my hands no longer trembled so much from cold as from the weight of the silence pressing against my eardrums. The books did not just sit on the shelves; they breathed, a low, rhythmic exhalation that smelled of sulfur and old paper. I needed the deed....

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