The Pale Circus
The coin in my hand was warm, heavy, and tarnished with the sweat of three years’ wandering. It was the last of them, the final piece of silver I had earned singing ballads for the price of a loaf and a bed in a stable, and I turned it over in my fingers, feeling the edge bite into my skin, a small, sharp pain that kept me grounded in the physical world. I was Silas, thirty-two years old, a...
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