The Pale Exile
The seal wax was the color of dried blood, a deep and arterial crimson that stained my fingertips as I broke the seal of the King’s writ. It was a cold morning in the city, the kind where the fog hangs so low it seems to press against the windows like a living thing, and the air tasted of wet stone and impending judgment. I held the parchment up to the pale, diffused light of the study, my...
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