The Pale Door

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The Pale Door

The fire did not smell of smoke; it smelled of wet ash and the copper tang of blood, a scent that coated the back of Elias’s throat as he clutched the pale silk tunic to his chest. Constantinople was dying, its ancient stones groaning under the weight of Venetian steel, and Elias, a scribe of thirty years who had once transcribed the Psalms in a quiet corner of the Great Palace, now ran through...

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