The auctioneer’s hammer struck the plank with a sound that didn’t belong to any human world.
It belonged to doors slamming. To chains. To a final breath.
On the raised platform at the edge of Redwood Crossing’s dusty main street, Clara Bennett stood so still she might’ve been carved from the same sun-bleached timber beneath her boots. Only the tremor …
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