The Pale Tale

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The Pale Tale

The fog rolled in from the marshes before dawn, thick as wool, smelling of rot and iron. I walked the ridge path, my boots sinking into the mud that clung to the soles with a persistent, sucking weight. I was not a man of the earth. I was a man of ink, of parchment, of the dry, safe warmth of the scriptorium where the air smelled of lamp oil and dried lavender. But I was here, in the village of...

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