The Wistful Letter
The ink on the parchment was not black, but the deep, bruised purple of a crushed thistle, and it smelled of iron and wet earth. I held the letter in my hands, my fingers trembling not from cold, but from the weight of the words that had just been read aloud to the assembly of the Guild of Scribes. We were gathered in the long, vaulted hall of the Archive, a place where the air was always still...
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