The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The brass nib of my fountain pen was cold against my thumb, a small, sharp point of resistance against the dampness of the air. I pressed it into the ledger, the ink bleeding not in a clean line but in a fractal, branching web that spread outward like frost on a windowpane, mirroring the erratic, thudding rhythm of my own pulse. I am Mara, thirty-two years old, a junior archivist in the...

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