The Pale Circus

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The Pale Circus

The dream began not with a sound but with a smell, a thick, cloying perfume of rotting lilies and wet wool that seemed to permeate the very air of the high, vaulted chamber where Aelred sat bound to the iron chair, his wrists chafed raw against the cold metal, his eyes closed behind a veil of exhaustion so profound it felt like a second skin, a shroud draped over the living flesh of a man who...

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