The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The iron stake bit into the mud with a wet, sucking sound that felt less like metal meeting earth and more like a nail driven through skin. Elias Thorne, forty-two, a surveyor whose debts had eaten away at his pride until only the hollows remained, gripped the top of the pole with both hands. His knuckles were white, the tendons in his forearms standing out like cables under the gray, overcast...

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