The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The banquet hall was a throat of candlelight, swollen with the smoke of tallow and the heavy, sweet rot of autumn pears, and I stood at the periphery where the shadows pooled thick as blood, watching the Duke’s face twist in a silent scream that no one else could hear because they were all too busy laughing at his jests, too drunk on the wine that tasted of iron and old coins, while I felt the...

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