The Pale Letter
The rain did not fall so much as it was hurled, a horizontal lash of sleet that turned the ancient moor into a churning sea of grey and black. Elias Thorne ran. His lungs burned with the cold air, a sharp, metallic taste coating the back of his throat, and his legs, once steady as oaks, now trembled with a fatigue that seemed to have seeped into his very marrow. He was a man of books, of dust...
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