The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

NOTICE OF CONDEMNATION. Item 402: Manuscript, Ottoman, banned. Owner: H. Aslan. Deadline: Friday, noon. The notice sat on the table, yellowing at the edges, heavier than the paper it covered. Hatice Aslan picked it up, her fingers trembling not from fear but from the sheer weight of the ink. She was thirty-four, a retired linguist in a city that had forgotten her name, and the moth in the glass...

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