The Pale Exile
The parchment was thin, damp, and smelled of the tallow Elias had used to seal it three hours ago. He held it against his chest, the wax softening in the heat of his body, a small, warm secret in the cold October air. Elias was forty, a scribe for the Bishop’s court, and he was running. Not running in the way of a man fleeing a wolf, but in the way of a man trying to outrun a shadow that had...
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