The Pale Shadows

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The Pale Shadows

The knife in my hand was not a weapon, but a utensil, stripped of its purpose by the sheer, oppressive weight of the hour. I stood in the center of the stone-walled kitchen, the air thick with the scent of rendered fat and old woodsmoke, and I watched the meat in the iron pot. It did not move. It did not bleed. It simply sat there, pale and inert, a mirror to the life I had buried beneath the...

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