The Distant Machine
The letter is dated. October the fourteenth. The ink is smudged where your thumb rested too long. You are reading it by candlelight. The wax has hardened on the floorboards. You are a warden. Or you were. Now you are a prisoner of the stone. The walls are old. They breathe. They do not care if you are there. The keep is a mouth. It has swallowed you. It is swallowing the light. You remember the...
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