The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The ink was thick, the color of dried rust, and it smelled of iron and old wet wool. Brother Thomas held the quill with a grip that had gone white-knuckled, his knuckles popping softly in the silence of the cellar, where the air was so heavy with the damp rot of the stone walls that it felt less like breathing and more like swallowing cold water. He was a scribe, a man of forty years who had...

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