The Pale Door

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The Pale Door

The banquet hall of Ashworth Manor did not smell of roasting pheasant or spiced wine, but of wet limestone and the copper tang of old blood, a scent that clung to the velvet drapes like a shroud, and I stood at the far end of the long oak table, my hands trembling not from the cold that seeped through the stone floor into my boots, but from the terrible, vibrating weight of the truth I carried...

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