The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The rain against the glass of the library window sounded like the slow, rhythmic tapping of fingernails on a coffin lid. Margaret sat in the leather chair, her hands folded in her lap, fingers interlaced with a tightness that turned her knuckles the color of old bone. She was not reading. She was waiting. The clock on the mantle, a heavy brass thing inherited from her father, ticked with a...

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