The Pale Door

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The Pale Door

The rain had stopped, but the mud remained. It clung to my boots, heavy and cold, a second skin that refused to peel away. I stood before the gate of the Iron House, a place where the air tasted of old stone and rusted iron. Inside, the King sat upon his throne, a man wrapped in furs that cost more than a year’s harvest for every man in my village. He looked at me with eyes like chips of flint....

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