Bones Tales The Manor Horse -

When the harvest came, the manor’s field yielded a single, perfect wheel of hay—no more, no less—left in the middle as if laid there by a considerate hand. The miller swore his sacks grew lighter and heavier in a week’s rhythm. Birds nested in the rafters and left bones like currency. Even the church cat, a skeptical grey with a limp, accepted the occurrence without insult: he would sit at the window and watch whatever passed and blink slowly, as if indulgent of ghosts.