The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The feast in the Guildhall was not a celebration of joy, but a ritual of endurance. Candles, thick as a man’s arm and made of rendered tallow, burned with a steady, yellowish glow that turned the faces of the assembled merchants into masks of wax. The air was heavy with the scent of roasted pheasant, stale ale, and the metallic tang of fear. Aldric Vane sat at the head of the long oak table,...

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