The Pale Banner

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The Pale Banner

Chapter One Ahmad Bagheri’s hands were black with grease when he held the parchment up to the light of the workshop, the ink already bleeding through the fibers like a bruise forming under skin. He was thirty years old, a junior clerk in the Ministry of Fisheries, and the weight of the document in his fingers felt heavier than the iron tools scattered across the floor of the borrowed workshop....

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