The Pale Door
The rain did not fall. It hovered, a suspended gray mist that clung to the wool of my coat and the steel of the rails. I had walked for three days. My shoes were wet leather, heavy as stones. I carried a satchel. Inside was a ledger. It was the only thing I owned that mattered. The air smelled of coal smoke and wet iron. The landscape was flat, a monochrome expanse of heath and scrub. There...
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