The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The mortar in the mixing bowl had hardened into a gray, jagged rock. Elias stared at it. The trowel lay beside it, stiff with dried cement. He had been here for three hours. The apartment was cold. The heating system in this building was old. It sputtered. It groaned. It gave up easily. Elias wiped his hands on his apron. He was a builder. A master of concrete and steel. He knew the tensile...

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