The Pale Protocol
Transfer Request: Denied. Cite Protocol 7. Act I‌​⁠⁠‌‌‌​​‌⁠⁠​‍​‌‍‍‌​‌‌⁠‍‌‍​​​​​​​​​​​​​​‌⁠​⁠​​⁠‍​⁠‌‍‍‍‍​⁠​‍‌⁠‌‌‍​‌‌​‌​‌​‌⁠ The ink on the page was still wet when Ashok Gupta set the pen down, the weight of the steel nib heavy against the cheap paper of the outpost ledger. He was thirty-four years old, a border patrol officer in a region that felt less like a country and more like a fever dream...
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