The Pale Tower

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The Pale Tower

The mercury in the vial was cold, but it hummed against my palm like a live thing. It was a pale, liquid substance, not quite silver, that whispered my father’s name in a frequency only I could hear. We were in the manor’s back stairs, the air heavy with damp wool and the iron dust from the smithy below. My father, old Nogueira, sat on the step, his chest heaving with the wasting cough that had...

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