The Pale Circus

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The Pale Circus

The iron gate was cold. It bit into Thomas’s palm. He stood before it. The fog was thick. It tasted of rust. And old bone. The Citadel loomed above. Black stone. No windows. Just slits. Like eyes. Blind and waiting. Thomas was a scholar. Or he had been. Now he was a prisoner. A scholar of the Law. He knew the statutes. Every clause. Every comma. He knew the weight of words. How they broke men....

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