The Pale Door

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The Pale Door

The clay bowl was heavy in my hands, thick with a pale porridge that smelled of damp ash and old grain. I stood at the head of the long table in the drafty hall, the wind whistling through the cracks in the stone walls, and I waited for the men to eat. They did not move. Around me, thirty soldiers sat with their own bowls untouched, their eyes fixed on the cold floor, their faces masks of a...

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