The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The pen is cold in your fingers, the nib dry and cracked, smelling faintly of iron and old blood. You hold it over the ledger, the leather cover worn smooth by years of thumbs, and wait for the ink to flow. It does not. Outside, the wind presses against the window of the Mayor’s office, a low, constant moan that vibrates through the floorboards. You are Elias Vane, twenty-four years old, a...

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