The Pale Path

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The Pale Path

The air in the dining hall tasted of burnt sugar and stale tobacco. It was a thick, heavy smell, the kind that clung to the inside of the lungs and refused to leave. Elias sat at the head of the long oak table, his hands folded in his lap. They were old hands. Knuckles swollen like knots in driftwood, skin mapped with the fine, white lines of a man who had spent forty years in the cold. He...

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