The Pale Path
The order lay on the table, the ink still wet, smelling of iron and stale coffee. You read it twice, the bureaucratic language of the High Court sliding over your mind like oil over water, refusing to sink. "Warden Elias Thorne, thirty-two, is hereby recalled from active duty at the Northern Reach and remanded to the custody of the Justicar for trial on charges of desertion and mutiny." The...
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