The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The pen slipped, leaving a jagged scar of ink across the service record, and Fintan Halloran watched the black line bleed into the paper grain with the slow, indifferent certainty of a tide. He was thirty-four, and his hand, which had once held a chalk stick with the authority of a mason’s chisel, now trembled with a fine, persistent vibration that made the letters waver like reeds in a gale....

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