The Wistful Letter

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The ink was black. It was not the soft, forgiving blue of a Sunday letter, nor the grey of a bureaucratic form. It was the color of a bruise, or the deep, still water of the cistern in the basement. Elias Thorne sat in his workshop, the air thick with the scent of linseed and rot, and watched the letter dry. It was a simple thing. Three lines. But the words had a weight to them, a density that...

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