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The town of Hailsham-Under-Wood knew him as the woodcarver’s ghost. Children whispered that if you pressed your ear to the bark of the old sentinel oak at the crossroads, you could hear the shush-shush-shush of his knife, paring away the world one curl at a time.

He placed the invisible carving on the fountain’s edge, and for a moment—just a moment—the fountain was no longer dry. Water ran over the mossy stone, clear and cold, and I heard a child’s laugh from a year that no longer existed. The town of Hailsham-Under-Wood knew him as the

It was not a name given at birth, nor a title earned in battle. It was a sound, a shape, a void in the shape of a man. Remsl . Water ran over the mossy stone, clear and

Then the carving faded. The water stopped. The laugh echoed once and died. which was market day

I met Remsl on a Thursday, which was market day, though the market had been dead for thirty years. I was there to catalogue the ruins for the Historical Society—a fool’s errand, as the Society had no money and the ruins had no interest in being catalogued.