The Pale Circus
Act I The air in the swamplands did not smell like death, but of wet iron and old copper, a taste that coated the back of the throat and refused to be swallowed. Nazario Urrutia stood at the edge of the pale clearing, where the cypress knees rose from the black water like the fingers of buried giants, holding a ledger that had grown heavy with twenty years of silence. He was thirty-two, a...
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