The Pale Dance
The dream was always the same, a loop of red ink and pale fingers. Elara stood at the desk, her face a mask of serene terror, and she wrote Thomas’s name in a script that bled into the parchment. He woke with the smell of iron in his mouth, the candle in the scriptorium guttering in the draft that seeped through the stone walls of the Abbey of St. Jude. It was the night before the winter...
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