The Pale Path
The chisel bit into the iron with a sound like a knuckle cracking. You held your breath, the air in the Blackwood Foundry thick with the scent of ozone and rust, the winter solstice three days away and the memorial slab for your father, Arthur Thorne, still bare in its center. The foreman, Silas Vane, leaned over your shoulder, his breath hot and sour, smelling of stale tobacco. "Soft hands,"...
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