The Pale Door

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The Pale Door

Act I The fog burned off by ten, leaving the salt pans like hammered mirrors. Suzanne Marchand stood at the reclamation yard, her hand on the cold iron of the gate. She was thirty-four, a border guard with a letter carrier’s road to walk, but today the road ended here. In her pocket, the amulet of river clay felt heavy, a stone of bad luck she had never dared to wash. "Stop," the new security...

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