The Pale Shadows

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The Pale Shadows

I remember the weight of the brass surveyor’s compass in my pocket, a cold, dead thing against my thigh, as I stood before the Ashen Gate. It was not a wall of stone, not exactly, but a solidification of the air itself, a grey barrier that tasted of iron filings and old blood. I was thirty-two, and I had come to cross it to retrieve my father’s ledger, the only proof that his "madness" was a...

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