The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The vial was small, glass, and cold against my palm. I held it up to the lantern light, watching the amber liquid swirl, a thick, viscous thing that smelled of bitter roots and stale earth. It was my father’s legacy, a tincture of opium he had brewed in his final years to quiet the shakes in his hands, the same tremors that now plagued mine. I was thirty-two years old, a constable in Oakhaven,...

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