The Pale Banner

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The Pale Banner

Chapter One The archives of Aethel were not built for the living, but for the dead, and the air inside tasted of dry rot and old paper. Frank Dobbs, a scholar whose lungs had begun to fail with the same quiet persistence as the canal outside his window, stood before a shelf of dampened scrolls. He was thirty years old, and he had spent the last decade trying to prove that his family’s name...

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