The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The wool was thick, the weave dense as a ledger of unpaid debts, and it smelled of damp earth and something older, something that did not belong in a physician’s office. You held it in your hands, Dr. Elias Thorne, forty years old, your fingers stiff with the cold that had seeped up from the cellar floor despite the coal stove burning bright. The shawl had been your mother’s, a heavy garment of...

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