The Pale Tale

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The Pale Tale

The mud of the river crossing sucked at my boots like a living thing, cold and indifferent to the weight of my service. I stood there for three hours, watching the white heron lift off from the reeds, its wings a stark, impossible purity against the gray slate of the autumn sky. It was a symbol I had built in my own mind, a beacon of the order I believed I was protecting, but the institutional...

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