The Pale Echo

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The Pale Echo

The glass cut deep, a bright red line opening across my palm as I swept the shards into the iron tray. The liquid in the vial had turned black, thick as tar, and the smell of it was still in my throat, metallic and rotten. My mother lay on the rug, her chest heaving with a rhythm that was wrong, too fast, too shallow. I looked at Lord Malachi. He did not look at her. He looked at my hand, at...

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