The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The boy, the boy, the boy. Mr. Thorne’s voice cut through the roar of the Whitmore estate’s annual harvest feast, sharp as a cleaver hitting the bone of a leg of mutton. I am Elias, twelve years old, and I am standing in the center of the long oak table, my hands trembling not from the chill of the cellar air that seemed to rise from the floorboards, but from a sudden, visceral need to carve...

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