The Pale Dance
The order was written on heavy, cream-colored vellum, the ink still wet and black as a bruise, and Elias Thorne read it for the third time while the dust of the shattered throne room settled on his pauldrons. It was a simple command, issued by the King himself before the end: to hold the High Window until the court could assemble, a directive that now felt less like an instruction and more like...
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