The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The bowl is white, chipped at the rim, and it smells of wet ash and old iron. You hold it with both hands, the ceramic warm against your palms, while the rest of the Iron Guard waits in the dim, stone-walled barracks. The silence is heavy, broken only by the scrape of spoons against the metal bowls of the men who have already finished. You are Elias Thorne, thirty-two, a sergeant who has served...

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