The Pale Circus

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The Pale Circus

The iron gate of Blackwood Penitentiary did not open so much as it accepted him, the hinges groaning with a low, resonant hum that Elias Thorne felt not in his ears but in the marrow of his teeth. He stood there, thirty-four years old, his uniform pressed and clean, the sergeant’s bars on his collar catching the weak November light, while the wind off the river carried the scent of wet coal and...

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