The Pale Path

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The Pale Path

The mist that rises from the river at dusk is not a mood, but a physical weight that presses against the lungs like wet wool. Abena Mensah, forty-five and the overseer of the dye-house, walked the ridge with the stiffness of a woman whose bones were forgetting how to bend. Her knees ached, a dull, persistent throb that she ignored, for to acknowledge it was to admit that time had already won...

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