The Pale Dance
The brass compass lay on my desk, its needle trembling with a faint, arrhythmic pulse. It was not a map, nor a guide to the sea, but a thing of quiet, metallic weight that I had inherited from my father, a man who spoke of the wind as if it were a personal debtor. I worked in the ledger room of the Ashworth Mill, a place where the air smelled of rusted iron and damp wool. My name was Silas, and...
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