The Pale Exile
The parchment was thin, translucent in the firelight, and the ink had begun to bleed where the Baron’s seal had pressed it too hard, a dark bruise spreading across the name of Elias Thorne. It was a writ of confiscation, dry and bureaucratic in its cruelty, listing the jars of tincture, the bundles of dried sage, and the copper scales that had defined his life for twenty years, now reduced to a...
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