The Pale Circus
The air in the town of Oakhaven smelled of sulfur and wet iron, a heavy, industrial perfume that clung to the wool of Elias Thorne’s coat. He stood in the center of the square, his hands raised, not in surrender, but in the precise, calculated geometry of a man who had spent thirty years balancing the ledger of human weakness. The crowd was not cheering; they were silent, a wall of faces...
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