The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The ink had dried on the contract before I even saw the magistrate’s face, a black scar across the parchment that felt less like a signature and more like a wound I had inflicted upon myself with a quill. I am Elias Vane, a clerk of thirty-two years, and my hands, which have spent the last decade shivering over ledgers in the damp chill of the city’s lower quarters, are now withered into claws...

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