The Pale Dance
The gate did not lock. It was an iron thing, heavy and cold, standing open like a jaw. Elias stood before it, his uniform crisp, his badge catching the pale morning light. He had not slept in two days. The city beyond the gate was quiet, too quiet, a held breath in the lungs of the state. He was a man of order. A man of lines drawn in chalk and erased by rain. But today, the lines were...
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