The Pale Shadows

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The Pale Shadows

The key was rusted into the lock, a jagged tooth of iron that had not turned in twenty years. Elias Thorne’s hands, mapped with the white scars of old burns and the tremor of age, gripped the brass handle. The air in the atrium was dead, suspended in a gray haze of plaster dust that hung in the shafts of light cutting through the broken roof. He was fifty-two, but his knees felt like they...

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