The Pale Circus

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The Pale Circus

Chapter One "Notice of Security Breach: Item 404-B, Ceramic Vessel, Status: Contaminated." The paper was white, stark against the grey linoleum of the Helsinki clinic, and Esteri Makinen held it in hands that trembled like dry reeds in a gale. She was forty-two, a salt trader by trade, though the roads were closed and the grain bought on credit had rotted in her cellar, leaving her with nothing...

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