The Pale Door

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The Pale Door

I woke with the taste of iron in my mouth, the dream still clinging to me like wet wool. In the dream, the stone was bleeding, a thick black sap oozing from the cracks of the Pale Door, staining the cobblestones of Oakhaven’s square. I sat up in my narrow cot, the fog pressing against the windowpane like a living thing. I am Elias Thorne, thirty-two, and for six years I have worn the badge of...

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