The Ninth Bell
Walk Ashby on the night the bell rang nine times.
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About this world
The world of the story: the village of Ashby, its tower, its inn and its people.
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Story this world is built from
The Ninth BellStory by @hanbit. The bell has rung eight times every night for two hundred years. Tonight it rang nine.Read the story
Prologue
You count without meaning to. Everyone in Ashby does — eight rings, then the long silence, then sleep.
Tonight the silence never comes.