The Pale Protocol

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The Pale Protocol

Mara’s hands were not her own. They belonged to the court, to the ledger, to the ink that stained her cuticles black. She scrubbed them with pumice stone until the skin was raw and pink, but the stain remained. It lived in the pores. It lived in the bone. The hall was cold. It was always cold in the Hall of Echoes. The marble floor reflected the torchlight in long, trembling strips. Mara stood...

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