The Pale Circus
The frost bit hard at the iron gates of the Palace of Whispers. I stood before them, my breath a thin white ribbon unraveling into the dark. The air smelled of wet stone and old blood. I was a man of duty, a clerk in the shadow of the throne, yet my hands trembled with a fear that had no name. The gates groaned. They were ancient things, forged in a time when kings wore steel and spoke little....
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