The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The shelling did not stop. It simply changed its mind. I stood in the corridor of the Whitehall annex, the air thick with the smell of wet wool and old paper. Outside, London was a skeleton of smoke. Inside, we were ghosts. I held the vial. It was small, no larger than a thumb, made of glass so thin it seemed to vanish against my skin. Inside it, the liquid was pale, swirling with a sluggish,...

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