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The Ninth Bell

The bell has rung eight times every night for two hundred years. Tonight it rang nine.

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In the village of Ashby the bell has rung eight times every night for two hundred years. When it rings a ninth time, the bell-keeper vanishes and the candles go out. You have until dawn to find out who climbed the tower — and whose name is being carved on the ninth step.

Prologue

You count without meaning to. Everyone in Ashby does — eight rings, then the long silence, then sleep.

Tonight the silence never comes. A ninth note rolls down the hill, low and wrong, and every candle in the inn goes out at once.

Comments

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Y@yuzu · 16hThe innkeeper is lying, I’m sure of it. Check the ledger behind the bar.
O@ostrava · 16h
K@kodaworks · 1dPell is the best kid character I’ve read in a while.
P@pellucid · 2dIs there a way to save Sister Agathe? Asking for a friend.