The Pale Tale

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The Pale Tale

The ink did not smell of iron, as one might expect from a wound, but of burnt rosemary and old dust, a scent that had long since colonized the very marrow of my bones. I stood in the center of the library, a room that had once been a chapel, its vaulted ceiling lost to the damp and the rot of centuries, and I held the quill not as a tool of creation, but as a dagger I had failed to discard. The...

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