The Pale Tale

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The Pale Tale

The rain did not fall. It drove. Horizontal needles of cold iron stitching the gray sky to the wet earth. Julian held the compass. It was a heavy thing, brass and glass, a relic from a father who had believed in lines. Straight lines. Julian’s hand shook. Not from cold, though the chill was a physical weight against his ribs. It shook because the needle was spinning. Useless. A drunkard’s eye....

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