The Pale Echo
The blood did not smell of iron, as I had been told it would, but of copper and old pennies, a metallic tang that coated the back of my throat and refused to wash away, clinging to my tongue like a secret too heavy to speak. I stood before the great oak table in the Council Chamber, my hands trembling not from fear, but from the strange, hollow exhaustion of a man who has just unmade his own...
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