The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The autumn of 1893 settled over the study in Edinburgh like a damp wool blanket, pressing the dust motes into the heavy velvet drapes and silencing the tick of the grandfather clock that had marked Elias Thorne’s life for two decades. He sat rigid in the high-backed chair, his knuckles white against the armrests, listening to the wet, rattling rattle of his mother’s breathing, a sound that had...

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