The Pale Echo

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The Pale Echo

The rain did not fall so much as it hovered, a gray suspension of mist that clung to the windows of the St. Jude’s Institute for the Mentally Infirmed. It was a cold, heavy air, the kind that seeps into the marrow and settles there like silt in a riverbed. I sat in my office, a room that smelled of wet wool and stale tobacco, staring at the desk. On the surface lay a single object: a copper...

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