The Pale Protocol
The soup tasted of iron and regret. It was thick, a sludge of blackberries and crushed bone, served in a bowl made from the hollowed-out skull of a stag. I held it with hands that trembled, not from cold, but from the sheer weight of the silence in the room. My father sat across from me. He did not look at the bowl. He looked at the wall. The stone was damp. The moss grew in spirals that...
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