The Pale Banner

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The Pale Banner

The ledger lay on the mahogany table, its pages thin as onion skin, the ink still wet and black. Elias smoothed the corner of the sheet, his fingers trembling not from cold but from the sheer weight of the lie he had constructed. He looked up at Duke Aldous, who sat at the head of the long table, surrounded by the smoke of a hundred candles and the scent of roasted goose. The Duke did not look...

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