The Pale Echo

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The Pale Echo

The mist at the edge of the Whispering Fen did not drift; it hung, a thick, grey curtain that smelled of rotting peat and old iron. Elias Thorne stood on the muddy bank, his fingers white-knuckled around the strap of his satchel, his heart hammering against his ribs in a slow, arrhythmic drag that threatened to stop him dead. He was fifty-two, retired from the municipal archive, and he had come...

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