The Pale Dance
The chisel bit into the plaster with a sound like a bone snapping. Elias held his breath, the metal vibrating against his palm, gritty with dust. He was twelve, small for his age, with hands that had not yet learned the patience of his father’s. The ancestral hall was cold. The air smelled of wet wool and old varnish. He struck again. The stone did not break. It hummed. A low, painful thrum...
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