The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The bill for the pigments lay on the desk, the ink still wet, smelling of iron and dried blood. Elias Thorne picked it up, his fingers trembling so violently the paper rattled against the wood. He was forty years old, and his hands, once steady enough to bind a book’s spine with silk thread, now shook like leaves in a gale. The wasting sickness had taken his strength, his appetite, and now, bit...

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