The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The iron kettle sang its thin, high note against the stone floor, a sound that had become the metronome of our final days. I sat with my back against the cold wall of the guardroom, my boots crossed, the leather stiff with the damp of the valley. My hand rested on the hilt of my sword, not in readiness, but in a kind of numb acknowledgment, the way one rests a hand on a familiar piece of...

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