The Pale Path
The first thing Vane’s men took was the mortar, the heavy granite block you had polished for thirty years, which they smashed against the hearthstone with a sound like a breaking bone, sending white dust into the air that settled on your hands like ash. You stood in the center of the kitchen, holding the walking stick of your dead father, its ash wood worn smooth by generations of grip, while...
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