The Pale Letter
The air in the Hall of Records did not smell of dust, as one might expect of such a place, but of wet stone and the faint, metallic tang of old iron. It was a smell that sat heavy in the throat, a physical weight that pressed against the lungs with every breath drawn. I stood in the center of the vast, vaulted room, my boots silent on the flagstones, watching the firelight dance across the...
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