The Pale Path
Elias. You hear it in the scrape of the beam against the wet hide, a low, grinding complaint that sounds less like leather and more like a throat clearing. You are forty-two, your knuckles swollen and permanently stained the color of old tea, and you are standing in the center of the tannery, the air so thick with the smell of lye and rotting flesh that your teeth ache. The fog outside is not...
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