The Pale Dance
The road to the North Gate is a ribbon of grey silt that has not been swept since the autumn rains, and you walk it with the heavy, rhythmic thud of a man who knows his time is nearly up. You are Elias, thirty-two years old, a border warden with a pension waiting in a ledger in the capital, a pension that requires the gate to be sealed by the solstice. It is a simple arithmetic of duty: ten...
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