The Pale Protocol

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The Pale Protocol

Margaret, come in here. The voice of the village elder cut through the smell of boiling sage and damp wool. I stood in the doorway, my hands trembling not from the cold, but from the stiffness in my knuckles. They were gray now, the color of old ash, and they ached with a deep, dull throb that the bitter tincture could no longer quiet. It was the fourteenth of March, 1892. I was forty-two years...

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