The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The mud in the Tōhoku scrubland was deep, cold, and indifferent to the name of the man slipping into it. Sakura Sasaki, forty years old and the holder of a debt of honor to a dead man, felt his left knee buckle under the weight of his own armor. It was not a dramatic failure; it was the quiet, grinding protest of cartilage worn thin by twenty years of marching and standing. He had been a palace...

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