The Pale Path
The ink was still wet on the ledger when the shouting started. It was a thick, black slurry, smelling of iron and rot, and it bled into the grain of the oak desk like a bruise forming under skin. I sat in the silence of the dispatch room, my hands folded, watching the blot spread. Outside, the rain hammered against the high, narrow windows of the precinct house, a relentless drumming that...
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