The Pale Fracture

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The Pale Fracture

The banquet hall smelled of roasted pork and iron. It was the Festival of the Stone, a night where the Iron City celebrated its own immortality, and the air was thick with the scent of wet limestone and spilled wine. I sat at the scribes’ table, my hands trembling not from cold, but from the weight of the parchment in my satchel. I was Elias, thirty-two, a junior transcriber in the Bureau of...

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