The Pale Tower

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The Pale Tower

The ink in Elias’s quill had dried into a black scab, a testament to the hours he had spent hunched over the parchment, the smell of damp wool and old paper suffocating the air in the scribe’s alcove. He was thirty-four years old, and his hands, once steady enough to copy the King’s decrees without a tremor, now shook with a fatigue that no amount of sleep could cure. The census was a monstrous...

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