The Pale Path

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The Pale Path

The dream was always the same, a cold and wet thing that clung to the inside of my eyelids. I woke with the taste of chalk dust in my mouth and a stiffness in my right hand that felt like arthritis, though I was only forty. I sat up in the narrow bed of the staff quarters, the ceiling water-stained and low, and watched the pale light of early morning creep across the floor. I needed to finish...

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