The Pale Echo
The question hung in the heat, sharp as a blade against the sun-bleached stone. Who was the shadow? Maria Uribe stood before the mirror in the dressing room, her hands trembling not from fear, but from the precise, cold weight of duty. She was thirty-four, a senior investigator in the Palace Security Corps, and she had three days before mandatory retirement. The East Wing had been sealed for...
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