The Pale Echo
The coat was not merely a garment. It was the skin you wore when the world tried to peel you off your bones. You had worn it for thirty years, from the damp libraries of Oxford to the shadowed corridors of the Royal Archive. The wool was thin now, rubbed white at the elbows, frayed at the cuffs where your hands had gripped the edges of ancient maps. It was a map of your own exhaustion, a fabric...
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