The Pale Tale

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The Pale Tale

The fire took the roof before the sun had fully cleared the eastern ridge, and by the time I was old enough to understand that the smoke was not a natural grey but a sickly, bleeding black, my father had already begun to weep, a sound so dry and hollow it seemed to come from the stones beneath our feet rather than his throat. I was seven years old, or perhaps eight, for time in that valley...

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