The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The ink on my left hand had not dried since the morning, a black smear that bled into the whorls of my fingerprints as I pressed the nib against the vellum. I was Thomas Bradshaw, thirty-four years old, a scribe of the Duke’s household, and I had only three weeks left to complete the city’s tax rolls before the winter frost set in. The deadline was not merely bureaucratic; it was the condition...

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