The Pale Path

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The Pale Path

The inkwell sat in my palm, heavy and cold, the glass etched with the name of a man who had died before I was born. I held it until my knuckles turned white, the liquid inside still as a black mirror. Outside, the wind tore at the eaves of the Oakhaven Mill, a sound like tearing canvas that had become the background noise of my existence. I was Elias, forty-two years old, a clerk with a cough...

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