The Pale Mist

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The Pale Mist

The trowel in Elara’s hand was cold, the steel biting into the meat of her palm as she scraped the flaking lime plaster from the west wall, revealing the blackened lath beneath and, further down, the hairline fracture that ran like a vein of obsidian through the brickwork. She was thirty-four, a structural engineer who had spent the last decade calculating the tensile strength of bridges in the...

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