The Pale Protocol

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The Pale Protocol

The dream was always the same. A hall of black stone. The air tasted of iron and old dust. And the hand. Her own hand, raised in the air, fingers splayed like the petals of a dead flower. The knuckles were white. The skin was pulled tight over bone. It was beautiful. It was terrible. Waking was a violence. Margaret Holloway sat up in the narrow cot in the servant’s quarters. The straw mattress...

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