The Pale Echo
The soup was thick. It clung to the spoon, a heavy, pale sludge of turnip and bone broth. I watched it tremble in the bowl before me. The steam rose in lazy, grey ribbons, dissolving into the cold air of the cell. My hands shook. They always shook now. Not from the chill, though the stone floor was a bed of ice, but from the trembling that lived in my marrow. It was the tremor of the penitent....
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