The Pale Exile
The snow had been falling for three days when I finally heard my own name spoken, not by Thomas, who would not look at me, but by the wind tearing at the shutters of my study. I was forty-five years old, a magistrate of the Highlands, and my hands were beginning to betray me. They shook when I held the quill, a fine, persistent tremor that turned my handwriting into a jagged scar on the paper....
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