The Pale Banner

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The Pale Banner

Chapter One "Total: 14 crowns. Status: Pending." Olga Cermak read the line on the slip of paper, the ink still wet and smelling of iron. The office was cold, the kind of damp that seeped into the bones and settled in the joints. She had waited two hours in a queue that snaked through the corridor, past the filing cabinets that hummed with the heat of their own friction. The treasurer, a man...

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