The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The ledger recorded the weight of the pigments: three ounces of lampblack, two of bone ash, and one vial of the silver compound, which the Abbot called *Aurum Mortis*. Elias counted the quills, twelve goose feathers, each cut to a precise angle, and weighed the paper against the grain of the oak table. He was twelve years old, and his hands were steady, a fact he had proven to his father in...

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