The Pale Echo

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The Pale Echo

The snow had stopped, leaving the canal banks white and silent, a fact I learned only after the fact, after the ink had dried on my skin and the hand was gone. I remember the smell first: the wet, fungal rot of the Imperial Archive, a place that smelled of damp wool and old fear, where the air hung heavy with the dust of ten thousand years of recorded lies. I was thirty-two then, a senior...

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