The Distant Machine
The ink is wet. The candle gutters. I write to you, Father, from the Edge. The air here tastes of iron and old smoke. It is not the air of our manor, where the lilies smell of sweet rot in the heat. Here, the silence has weight. It presses against the eardrums. I am a clerk still. That is the joke. I am a clerk of the Void. My name is Elias. You remember me? The quiet one. The one who spoke...
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