The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The ink dried slow. My hand shook. Not from cold. The cellar was warm. Too warm. It smelled of wet wool and iron. I was a soldier. Or I had been. Now I was a ghost in a machine. The machine was the town. The town was the lie. I held the pen. The paper was thin. It wept. "Thomas," I said. My voice sounded wet. Like a stone dragged through mud. Margaret looked at me. She did not blink. Her eyes...

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