The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

Act I My hand hovered over the wet ink, the nib scratching a final, trembling stroke into the damp paper of the chronicle as the factory siren schedule pinned to the wall behind me began its low, mournful hum, a sound that had replaced the rooster’s crow in this district long before the strikes drove us out. I was Kartika Wijaya, thirty-two years old and a scribe of no consequence, and I needed...

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