The Pale Echo
The ledger book lies open on the mahogany desk, its pages yellowed and brittle as autumn leaves, and you are tracing the ink with a fingernail that has gone white at the tips from the cold seeping through the floorboards. The air in the counting house is thick with the smell of stale tobacco, damp wool, and the metallic tang of old fear, a scent that has settled into the very grain of the wood...
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