The Pale Bridge

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The Pale Bridge

The ink smells of iron and rot. You grind it with a stone that has no name, the friction raising a fine dust that settles on your tongue. You are thirty-two years old. Your hands shake. The Pale Mark is spreading. It starts at the wrist, a faint, silvery line, but it burns like acid. You are Elara. You are a scribe. You are alone in the high tower of Oakhaven, and the winter solstice is three...

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