The Pale Tale
The steel bit into the shield, a sharp, singing note that rang out across the muddy courtyard like a bell tolling for the dead. I held my ground. My arm trembled, not from fear, but from the sheer, crushing weight of the blow. The man before me was young, his face pale with the exertion, his eyes wide with a fervor that I had once recognized as my own. He swung again. I parried. The impact...
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