The Pale Banner

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The Pale Banner

The ledger showed three hours remaining until dawn, but my watch had stopped at four, the glass cracked by a stone thrown in anger I no longer remembered. I counted the seconds in my head, one, two, three, trying to force the time to move, but the Keep of Vael did not care for human arithmetic. It breathed. The stone walls pulsed with a low, wet rhythm that mirrored the frantic, arrhythmic...

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