The Pale Verdict

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The Pale Verdict

The feast was a wound in the dark. Candles guttered in iron sconces, casting long, trembling shadows against the stone walls of the old manor. The air smelled of roasted lamb, wet wool, and the metallic tang of fear. Elara sat at the far end of the long oak table. She was small. Pale. A clerk’s daughter. Her hands were still, folded in her lap, white-knuckled. She did not eat. She watched. The...

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