The Pale Circus

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The Pale Circus

The ink was cold, a sludge of soot and gall that smelled of the cellar where my father had coughed his last breaths into a rag. I am Elias Thorne, thirty-two, and my hands shake so violently that the quill scratches like a dying rat against the parchment. I need this post in the Duke’s library, I need the stipend to pay for the leeches and the tonics that keep my mother’s fever at bay, but the...

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