Jaggy Splinters
“Donald looked back down at the ledger, the sole text in the shop by his own hand; unfinished but already a tale more dismaying than was to be found in any of the volumes clinging so stubbornly to his shelves. He’d admit the scrawlings might not appear so dreadful to a stranger’s eye, but then the stranger would not have read the tome’s companion pieces, to be found in the respective libraries of a publican on Cowgate and a Musselburgh gentleman who dealt in an altogether different manner of boo...k.
The panes rattled once more, this time with a rhythm undeniably human. It was time. Inexorably it was time. He closed the ledger with a beaten sigh and sloughed towards the door, where outside a cowled figure waited in the rain. Behind him the black shape of the court building rose in silent admonition.
Donald opened the door and stepped to one side, unable to look his brother in the eye as he entered. Rainwater immediately pooled beneath Andrew’s absurdly portentous cloak, and the sack he’d been carrying hit the floorboards with all the thumping weight of a gallows trapdoor.MoreLess
The panes rattled once more, this time with a rhythm undeniably human. It was time. Inexorably it was time. He closed the ledger with a beaten sigh and sloughed towards the door, where outside a cowled figure waited in the rain. Behind him the black shape of the court building rose in silent admonition.
Donald opened the door and stepped to one side, unable to look his brother in the eye as he entered. Rainwater immediately pooled beneath Andrew’s absurdly portentous cloak, and the sack he’d been carrying hit the floorboards with all the thumping weight of a gallows trapdoor.MoreLess
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