The Pale Mist

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The Pale Mist

The rain does not fall in Oakhaven; it hangs. You stand before the desk of Lord Vane, the air thick with the scent of wet wool and old paper. You are Elias, thirty-two, a clerk whose hands tremble not from cold but from the weight of the deed in your pocket. You need the inheritance. You need it for Mara, or rather, for the grave that holds her, and the debts that cling to her memory like moss....

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