The Pale Circus
The dream was always the same, a slow hemorrhage of black ink weeping from the limestone walls of the Palace Archive, pooling on the floor in a dark, viscous tide that smelled of iron and old paper. I woke with the cold, spectral weight of a hand resting on my left shoulder, a touch that had no source in the room but felt as real as the linen sheet beneath my cheek. I sat up in the dark, the...
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