The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

Chapter One I remember the sound of the tide clock before I saw the dust. It was a low, hydraulic thud, steady as a heartbeat in the walls of the National Institute, a sound that never stopped even when the snow outside closed the road and the world went white. I was thirty-two, a junior archivist with a soil quota to meet by first frost, and my hands were shaking so badly I could barely hold...

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