The Pale Door
The banquet hall of the High Council smelled of roasted pheasant and old fear, a cloying mixture that coated the back of Elias Thorne’s throat as he stood, isolated in the center of the marble floor. He was thirty years old, a man whose hands were stained permanently with the ink of case files and the dust of the catacombs, and tonight, under the chandelier’s harsh, unblinking light, he felt...
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