The Pale Tale
The iron key sat in my palm, cold and heavy as a stone drawn from the riverbed, its teeth worn smooth by the friction of countless previous hands, a relic of a freedom I had mistaken for a curse. I looked down at the small, brass-finished object, its surface tarnished with the patina of years and the sweat of desperate fingers, and felt the weight of it not in my hand but in the hollow spaces...
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