The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The ink in the pot had dried into a black crust, a small, hard eye staring up at Thomas from the center of his desk. He scraped it away with a pen nib, the sound sharp and grating in the quiet of the clerk’s office. It was 1912, and the air in the Duke’s estate smelled of coal smoke and damp wool, a heavy, industrial stench that clung to the skin. Thomas was twelve, scrawny and pale, his hands...

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