The Pale Fracture

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The Pale Fracture

The banquet hall of Oakhaven smelled of roasted pork and stale fear. I sat at the long table, my hands wrapped around a clay cup of watered wine, watching the Council members eat with the mechanical precision of men who had forgotten how to feel. The year was 402, and the winter freeze was three weeks away. I am thirty-two years old, a boundary surveyor, and I want only to finish the map of the...

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