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Lei Holtz

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The Bell Tower

The town of Eiren's Hollow had one sacred rule: never ring the bell. The bell hung in the old stone tower at the hill's edge, overlooking the weeping willows and moss-covered graves of a time long past. Its rope was frayed, untouched for nearly a century. No one in living memory could say why, exactly, the bell remained silent. Just that when you asked, the townspeople's eyes would darken, and they'd say something like "It's better not to tempt what sleeps." Ezra was not from Eiren's Hollow. He had arrived three weeks ago, a young historian ...

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