The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The banquet hall of the King’s new industrial palace, a cathedral of cast iron and gaslight, smelled of roasted pheasant and the sharp, metallic tang of ozone, a scent that clung to the back of my throat like a bad penny. I was twelve years old, a junior scribe in the Office of State Correspondence, and I sat at the far end of the long table, my eyes fixed not on the King’s gilded plate but on...

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