The Pale Bridge

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The Pale Bridge

The feast was not a celebration but a census of bodies, a meticulous inventory of flesh that had survived the winter’s hunger. In the great hall of the city, where the air smelled of rendered fat and stale beer, the magistrate’s scribes sat at long tables, their quills scratching against parchment with the rhythmic, mechanical precision of cicadas in a dry summer. They were counting the hands....

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