The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The water in the basin had gone cold, and the cloth in Elias’s hands felt like wet sand. He pressed it against Clara’s forehead, wiping the sweat that beaded there in the dim cellar. The girl did not stir. Her breathing was a shallow rattle, a sound that scraped against the stone walls of the manor’s lower chamber. Elias looked at his hands. They were steady, trained to hold a scalpel, to tie a...

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