The Pale Echo

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The Pale Echo

The silk bled red into the wool. I stared at the stain, a jagged wound on the chest of the Mayor’s new coat. It was not a stain. It was a warning. My hands, usually steady as stone, trembled against the table. The lavender scent was thick, cloying, choking the air of my workshop. I could hear her humming, low and sweet, a melody from a decade dead. Clara was here, in the shadows, watching me...

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