The Pale Exile
The blade of the scalpel slips between the ribs, and the fluid that wells up is not red but a thick, milky white, smelling faintly of crushed mint and old paper. You watch it drip onto the bandage, where it spreads in a pale star, and the wound in the boy’s side begins to close, the skin knitting together like wet clay drying in the sun. The town of Oakhaven is a place of stone and shadow, a...
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