The Pale Bridge

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The Pale Bridge

The ink was black, but Elias Thorne’s hands were red, the veins standing out like the roots of an ancient oak against the parchment that lay before him. He was thirty-two years old, a scribe of modest talent and immense debt, trapped in the subterranean cell of the Magistrate’s office, where the air tasted of damp stone and old iron. The only light came from a tallow candle that sputtered in...

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