Book 4: The Serpent Beneath the Laurel
The Memoirs of Major Alastair Montague
Chapter I: The Summons at Dawn
The letter came in the dawn, as they often did in those days, when the air is not yet broken by birdsong nor the ground warmed by the sun. I had grown to dread mornings, not for their silence but for their messages. The envelope was hand-deliv…
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