The Pale Tale
The white stone sat in the pocket of your waistcoat, cold as a river pebble, pressing a small, sharp ache against your thigh. You were thirty-two years old, Elias Thorne, senior constable of Oakhaven, and you had seven years of service behind you and a sister, Clara, dying in the next room. The air in the station house was thick with the smell of damp wool and stale tobacco, a heavy,...
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