The Pale Meridian

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The Pale Meridian

The damp in the cellar of Oakhaven did not merely settle; it breathed, a fungal exhalation that tasted of iron and rot. Elias Thorne, his hands stained black with soot and the deep, arterial red of his own coughing fits, stood before the alchemist’s workbench, the heavy oak door locked behind him with a finality that felt like a verdict. He was forty, a blacksmith whose lungs had turned to ash...

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