The Pale Circus

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The Pale Circus

The parchment was thin, brittle at the edges, and smelled faintly of damp earth and iron. Elias Thorne held it under the guttering flame of a tallow candle, his fingers trembling not from cold, but from the sudden, violent recognition of the signature scrawled at the bottom. It was his own hand, or a perfect mimicry of it, inked in a black so deep it seemed to absorb the light. The document was...

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