The Pale Door
The bell of the Duke’s steward did not ring with the polite courtesy of a merchant, but with the sharp, metallic bite of a command that shattered the quiet of your workshop. You stood before the furnace, the heat blistering the back of your neck, your hands stained with the white dust of silica and the black soot of labor. You were Elias, forty-two years old, a master of the molten breath, and...
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