The Pale Circus
Mahsa Kian stood in the dust, the silver key cold in her palm, watching Ramin laugh from the shadow of the garden wall. The September frost had come early, biting the roots of the pomegranate trees, and the air tasted of iron and dried leaves. She needed the key. Not for the cellar, where the wine rotted in its casks, but for the boundary stone at the edge of the quarry lake, unnaturally blue...
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