The Pale Circus

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The Pale Circus

The mist in Oakhaven did not roll in; it rose, thick and gray as wool, swallowing the lower branches of the oaks until the valley looked like a bruise under skin. Elias Thorne stood on the porch, his hands heavy with the weight of his rifle, watching his sister Mara cough. She was twenty-two, thin as a reed, and the sound she made was wet, a rattle that seemed to come from the bottom of her...

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