The Pale Door
The ledger page was torn, the edges ragged like a wound that refused to close. Elias Thorne held it in his sweating palms, the paper damp with the humidity of the corridor outside the High Chancellor’s office. It was 1912, and the air in the capital smelled of coal smoke and old money. Elias was thirty-four, a sergeant with a face hardened by years of service, but today his hands trembled. He...
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