The Pale Tale

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The Pale Tale

The clock in the tower of the old abbey did not tick. It breathed. A slow, rhythmic expansion and contraction of the gears that sounded less like mechanics and more like the laboring of a vast, sleeping lung. Elias Thorne stood in the center of the clock room, his hands wrapped around the brass casing of the pendulum bob. The metal was cold, a sharp, biting cold that seeped through his wool...

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