The Pale Letter
The ink had not yet dried on the parchment when the first crack split the ceiling of the scriptorium, a jagged fissure that wept dust like gray snow into the hushed silence of the archive. Silas Vane, a man whose spine had been straightened by decades of rigorous posture and whose hands were permanently stained with the indigo residue of his trade, did not look up from his work. He was engaged...
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