The Pale Bridge
The iron was cold. It bit into my wrists with a hunger that felt older than the town, older than the stone walls that held the fog in a perpetual, bruised twilight. I did not scream. Screaming was for those who still believed in the mercy of sound. I was Elias Vane, and I had been bound to the scaffold for three days, not for murder, but for the crime of remembering. The air smelled of wet rot...
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