The Pale Tower
The chisel lay in Elias’s palm, cold and heavy as a dead bird, its iron face dull with the residue of three years of careful, silent work. He held it the way a man holds a knife in a dark room, not to cut, but to feel the weight of the possibility. Around him, the infirmary of the Pale Tower smelled of wet stone and the sweet, cloying rot of Elara’s sickness, a scent that had become so familiar...
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