The Pale Exile
The iron gate groaned. It was a sound like a dying lung. You stood before it, your hands white-knuckled around the leather satchel. Inside, the weight of your inheritance pressed against your ribs. Not gold. Not jewels. Flesh. A single, preserved limb. Your mother’s arm. "Is this the end?" asked the warden. He wore a mask of grey wool. His voice was muffled, soft as rot. "It is the beginning,"...
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